Chairman, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party, Tony Anenih, fhas said that the party will not rue the departure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Anenih, who succeeded Obasanjo as BOT Chairman following the former president’s resignation in 2007, told journalists at the presidential villa Monday afternoon that the party leaders will not miss the retired general.
“He (Obasanjo) has the right to leave any party, and he has the right to join any party. He is a Nigerian,” Anenih said, adding that the exit was not a “big loss” to the party, asking rhetorically: “Why should we miss him?”
Anenih was minister of works when Obasanjo was president and was often referred to as “Mr Fix It” because of the belief that he could get anything fixed politically.
He, however fell out with Obasanjo in 2007 when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adau came to power.
The PDP constitution was amended to deny Obasanjo sole franchise to the position of BoT chairman, and Obasanjo subsequently resigned.
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