PDP crisis: Tragedy as OBJ's peace move fails

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Obasanjo and other senior members of the party met with its two factions at Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Friday to discuss how to settle the differences among the warring factions. But both parties insisted that their conditions for peace must be satisfied before the party could move forward.

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PDP Problem: OBJ Declares War Over Uba’s Suspension

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President Olusegun Obasanjo is said to have returned to the trenches within the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) following the outcome of the governorship primaries of the party in Anambra State.

Obasanjo had recently attempted to broker a truce between the PDP and the aggrieved governors of the party under the aegis of G5 in Abuja. Though the meeting lasted for a week, nothing concrete came out of it at the end of the day.

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Message To GEJ: Jonathan Is Being Confused By Those Around Him –– OBJ

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Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to beware of some of his aides who are confusing him and making more enemies for him in the pretext of doing their jobs.

“Obasanjo did not mince words in telling President Jonathan the bitter truth. He told him clearly to beware of some of his aides who are making life difficult for him through their unguarded utterances that are making more enemies for him”.

He also advised Jonathan to start running an inclusive government so as to douse tension in the ruling PDP.

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Video: OBJ BLOWS OWN TRUMPET

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The Story of OBJ and Atiku Abubakar ( Must Read)

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Culled From Vanguard Nigeria

This is the story of how former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, first met, and how their relationship blossomed before nose-diving over political ambition. In his soon-to-be released auto-biography, ATIKU ABUBAKAR, THE STORY OF MY LIFE, it is discovered that whereas Obasanjo appointed Atiku as his running mate in 1999, there are pieces of information before that fact to suggest that the former may indeed be indebted to the latter. 

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History’ll judge OBJ – Gbenga Daniel

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Due essentially to adversarial kind of politics people play in this part of the world, hardly has any public office holder in Nigeria come out unscathed. This is particularly so for former Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State who has been entangled in a web of controversies with his successor, Governor Ibikunle Amosun, over the debt profile allegedly accumulated by his administration.  In this no-holds-barred interactive session with some journalists, OGD gave a blow-by-blow account of his roles in all sensitive matters threatening his public image. Excerpts:

The government of Ogun State recently announced that you accumulated hundreds of billions of naira debt before your administration left office. What is your position on that?

Jonathan launches S’West onslaught against OBJ

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There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, have begun fresh moves  to seize the control of the party in the South-West from former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Investigations on Tuesday also showed that the moves were to ensure that Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola did not return as the PDP National Secretary.

Oyinlola, a political protegee of Obasanjo and former Osun State governor   was on Monday  directed  to step down by Tukur. The  action  was viewed by  political observers as part of the strategies by the President and his team to whittle down the former President’s  influence,  especially  in the South-West PDP.

Mild Drama At Armed Forces Remembrance Day As OBJ Refuses To Lay Wreath

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There was a mild drama at the armed forces remembrance day held at Arcade ground in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when former President Olusegun Obasanjo shunned the traditional wreath laying ceremony.Obasanjo who was clad in a white flowing Agbada with a traditional blue cap,  shunned the State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s  request to lay a wreath.The mild episode ensued when his name was mentioned as part of the dignitaries that would lay the wreath and he vehemently rejected after he was persuaded by the governor.

Ex President: OBJ House On Fire

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The country home of Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo at Olusegun Osoba Hilltop in Abeokuta, Ogun state has been damaged by a fire outbreak, which consumed the office building in the complex.

The fire which lasted for about 30 minutes was allegedly caused by a power surge.

The fire started just about 20minutes
after the former president left his Abeokuta
Hilltop Mansion residence on Thursday.
Photo by Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji

One of the attendants in the house, who does not want to be identified, said that as soon as the blaze was noticed, men of the Ogun state fire service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were contacted.

The inferno was reportedly brought under control.

The former president returned home after the inferno started.

Addressing journalists that were present at the house, the former President in Yoruba language, jokingly used a native adage that the King’s house that burns will only be beautified.

“Go, go and sing to the whole world that ‘the King’s house that is gutted by fire only beautifies the house,” the former president cheerfully said.

We Are At War!!! OBJ Vs Fashola

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A ‘cold war’ appears to brewing between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, following the confiscation of a utility vehicle belonging to Obasanjo Farms.


This is coming as the protest against the Lagos State Road Traffic Law by commercial motorcyclists (popularly called Okada) Tuesday spread to other parts of the metropolis, leaving at least one bus belonging to LAGBUS Asset Management Limited damaged.