A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, in reaction to a statement credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo where he said that the PDP was dead, has stated that Obasanjo is not God.
Ali, in an interview, said Obasanjo’s position was only his own feeling admitting that the former President is fond of airing his personal opinion.
“He only said that during his 80th birthday. And when he said it, I grudgingly said that he is not God. But that is his own feeling,” he said.
“You know the former president has a way of saying his mind.”
“The problem of the PDP is because we lost the election and the leadership brought this problem.
“When I protested as a person to Uche Secondus, who was the acting national chairman then, he said Sheriff was the best candidate.“The 12 governors said he was the best but we in the BoT still said no; up till the last day when we held the NEC meeting and when the NEC voted.
“Dickson’s committee was set up on the eve of the convention that failed. We were going to the convention and many of us said we should postpone the convention and wait because about seven states had yet to hold their congresses and produce delegates. But he said there was no problem; that it would be sorted out.
“In any case, if at least two thirds of the states had produced delegates to the convention, then its outcome would have been valid. So, without seven states, the convention was valid. But we said that we needed to find out and sort out the problems in those states.
“Some states in the south-west and North were part of it – that was the purpose for the Dickson committee. What is its relevance now? We have gone beyond that.”
