The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),
Dr Adamu Mu’azu, has said that the face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, will not affect the chances of the party in February general elections.
He also expressed confident that the former president would not work against the PDP in the southwest.
A terse statement by Mu’azu’s chief press secretary, Tony Amadi reads, “With our former president and Board of Trustees chairman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo there, we believe he will not work against us despite what people assume on the contrary.”
It added that the people woould reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the southwest, because the PDP had worked very hard over the past four years in wards and local government areas of the entire region.
“We are confident the opposition will find themselves in the shade, far behind,” Mu’azu said.
The statement, meant to douse speculations in the zone, may be a response to the rumors in some quarters that Obasanjo was secretly working for APC gubernatorial candidates in Yoruba-speaking states.
The president and Obasanjo are having a frosty relationship that has seen the two fire salvos at each other.
Obasanjo at virtually every gathering accuses the Jonathan-led administration of misusing the nation’s foreign reserve.
He also released a book critical to the person and government of President Jonathan despite pleas made on the latter’s behalf by his emissaries. .
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