Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), and founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) founding member of the ruling All ProgressCongress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has described last week’s rejection of Peoples Democratic Party’s overtures by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to return to the party as a signal to another defeat awaiting the PDP in the 2023 presidential election.
Okechukwu, who noted that Nigerians are much aware of the devastating role of the PDP in pulling down the nation’s economy during its 16 years in power, wondered whether its leaders have refused to understand that citizens are suspicious and no longer interested in reinforcing the PDP’s culture of “sharing the money”.Speaking with journalists Sunday in Abuja, Okechukwu said it smacks of political naivety for a party whose membership card was publicly shredded by Obasanjo to go back asking for the support of the same statesman who had long rejected it.
According to him, “the rejection of PDP’s request to re-join the party by Chief Obasanjo comes as a failure signal on the eve of the 2023 Presidential election
“I have my sympathy for our sister political party, PDP, over this misadventure. Just imagine the uncommon electoral boost the party would have generated if Chief Obasanjo had accepted their request. “The statesman’s re-entry could have boosted the morale of the rank and file of the PDP. In short the rejection is a bad omen, particularly coming at the eve of the crucial 2023 presidential election.”
PDP chieftains led by its national chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu had last week visited Chief Obasanjo in his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence, where they requested that the former President should return to the party under which platfporm her became Nigeria’s president between 1999 and 2007
