Friday, January 10, 2014

MENDING FENCES : President Endorses BoT’s Visit To Obasanjo ... LeadershipNews

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The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih, is leading other top leaders of the board in a fresh effort to end the dispute between President Goodluck Jonathan and former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Anenih and his team, LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt, have the president’s blessing and have resolved to intervene at the BoT meeting slated for next week in Abuja. Their intervention, sources in the BoT said, is to salvage the party ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Since President Jonathan and Obasanjo exchanged open letters on some national issues, moves have been made to reconcile them to enable the PDP settle down for the 2015 electioneering.
A top PDP BoT member told our correspondent that a lot was being done to reconcile the two leaders of the party. “It is true that the Board of Trustees of our party has resolved to intervene in the feud between President Jonathan and former president Obasanjo. The matter must be urgently resolved in order to put the party back on the track as we approach the general elections.
“Nobody is happy with the situation and a lot is being done behind the scenes to address it and reconcile the two leaders. The party needs the two of them operating on the same page in order to stop the opposition from destroying the country,” he said. “Whether it is on the agenda [of the BoT] or not, we are deliberating on the issue with a view to bringing the two leaders together.
It is when they are together that our party can move forward. Our chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, is interested and we the trustees are also interested. We don’t mind going to meet Obasanjo in Ota or Abeokuta. We have the support of President Jonathan who is the leader of the party.”
The source explained the dilemma of Jonathan before he replied Obasanjo’s letter: “He would have shelved the idea but doing so would mean admitting all the grave allegations levelled against him, and replying the letter would escalate it. But it was a situation when silence was no longer golden.”

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