{"id":112128,"date":"2024-05-13T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=112128"},"modified":"2024-05-13T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:45:08","slug":"im-done-with-party-politics-obasanjo-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/05\/13\/im-done-with-party-politics-obasanjo-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019m Done With Party Politics,&#8217; Obasanjo Insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">A former <\/span><span class=\"s1\">president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has maintained that he has retired from party politics and the <a href=\"https:\/\/africadailynews.net\/2023\/02\/06\/pdp-g-5-govs-when-mature-men-dance-naked-in-public.html\">Peoples Democratic Party<\/a> (PDP) remains his former political party and nothing will change that status.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Obasanjo, who was in Osogbo, Osun State, to commission the VIP lodge at the Government House, hailed Governor Ademola Adeleke for not being a dancing governor alone but also a working governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSome people once despised you for being a dancer, but I maintained that only happy people dance. You are my dancing partner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Obasanjo described Osun as a complex state, saying, \u201cIt is not difficult to govern; it only requires the fear of God, openness, and good character.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Read Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/05\/03\/tinubu-working-overtime-to-destabilize-pdp-momodu-alleges\/\">Tinubu Working Overtime To Destabilize PDP, Momodu Alleges<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<em>What I have heard and seen since three days ago that I have been here, if there is doubt in anybody that you are working, tell the person to come and see. If you remember there was a time I phoned you, and I said don\u2019t hate dancing, but as you are dancing, ensure you are working.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>\u201cIf I say that I don\u2019t know what happened before you get to the government, it is a lie. But, you did something last week Sunday, by calling leaders of your party. It was my party but I am not participating in party politics again. I am happy that you called them for deliberation. Senator Olu Alabi is here, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, and former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola. We should bring everyone on board. I have talked to two out of three of them, it is a good move which is not only good for the party but also good for the state and the country,\u201d<\/em> Obasanjo said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Governor Adeleke said the completed VIP lodge was in fulfilment of his promise to complete all abandoned projects by his predecessors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/\"><strong>Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has maintained that he has retired from party politics and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains his former political party and nothing will change that status.\u00a0 Obasanjo, who was in Osogbo, Osun State, to commission the VIP lodge at the Government House, hailed Governor Ademola Adeleke for not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":112144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6943,15253,18352],"class_list":["post-112128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-nigeria","tag-olusegun-obasanjo","tag-peoples-democratic-party-pdp","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;I\u2019m Done With Party Politics,&#039; 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