He said this while reacting to last Wednesday’s apologies from the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; Senate President, David Mark and Otunba Gbenga Daniel, when Daniel formally returned to the party in Abuja, begging the former president to return and lead them in PDP.
Obasanjo said in a statement he issued Sunday evening in Abeokuta that “last week, when I was in South Africa as the Chairman of AU Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan and while with my fellow Commissioners, we were deliberating on how to help that new country out of its problem of security and violence, I received avalanche of news and cacophony of appeals and pleadings from some quarters of PDP leadership.
“There are misunderstandings and misrepresentations, which some of those appeals and pleas manifested; hence this explanation from me.”
The statement added: “Talking of inviting me back to PDP is wrong and it is a great misrepresentation as I have never left PDP and I will never leave PDP. I have said it before and I will say it again, I rose to become the President of Nigeria on the platform of PDP and for that reason alone, I will remain a card-carrying and ward-active member of PDP for as long as I have to be a political party member.
“Secondly, nobody has personally offended me as a result of my membership of PDP. If, however, anybody or group feels offended by my continued membership, I will offer an unreserved apology but continue to remain in the party.
“I have had occasions to say to the President, the Senate President and the Party Chairman separately that I have no quarrel with any individual or group in the party. There are, for me, issues of principle, morality, honour , integrity, commitment and character which are paramount.
Credit/ The Sun
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