The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday appealed to former President Olusegun Obasanjo to back the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in next month’s general elections. The PDP said Obasanjo’s support was imperative because it was crucial for the president’s victory in the February 14 poll. Obasanjo, who had engaged in war of words with the President in recent times, has since last year formally withdrawn active participation in the affairs of the ruling PDP. The former president was, however, absent from the MKO Abiola Stadium venue of yesterday’s President Jonathan’s campaign in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, did not also attend the rally. Earlier, journalists who had besieged Obasanjo’s Hilltop Presidential Mansion in Abeokuta to await the planned visit by Jonathan to the former president’s residence were disappointed when the event did not hold.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:59:39 +0000
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