Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Monday left his guests at his Hilltop mansion
in Abeokuta with bated breath when he tore
his Peoples Democratic Party membership
card in their presence.
The guests, who are leaders of the PDP from
Obasanjo's ward around his former
residence in Ita Eko, where he registered,
visited the ex-president to express their
concern with his recent utterances against
the government of President Goodluck
Jonathan and what he considered as the
President's role in the postponement of the
general elections from February to March.
Obasanjo had alleged on Saturday that
Jonathan had a "grand plan" to scuttle
democracy in the country through the poll
shift, accusing the President of trying to win
the presidential poll "through hook or crook."
The guests in Abeokuta had told the former
Head of State that they had come to plead
with him to stop his criticisms of the
incumbent president.
They also informed him of the feelers that
they were getting that the leaders of the
party were planning to expel him from the
party.
Obasanjo asked his guests if they were with
their PDP membership card, which some of
them produced.
He subsequently asked for his own, which
someone brought to him.
He then directed the leader of the team to
tear the card in shreds, telling the visitors
that he was no longer a member of the
ruling party.
The former president had last year resigned
his membership of the party, when he was
the Chairman of the party's Board of
Trustees, arguing that he could no longer be
in the same party and be led in the South-
West by someone he referred to as a
confirmed drug baron.

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