I’ve No Plan To Float A Political Party Now Or In the Future – Obasanjo

BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he has no plan to float a new political party now or in the near future.

Chief Obasanjo, who stated this on Monday while reacting to media reports alleging that he was planning to form a new political party, said that the fabricated story hardly come to him as a surprise, adding that he had for some time now, observed with bewilderment the efforts by some people to drag him into their political games.

The former Nigerian leader in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media Affairs, Kehinde Akinyemi, said that his political party remains the party of Nigerians facing insecurity, unemployment, hunger, poverty, and various other challenging issues.

In the words of Obasanjo; “I am done with partisan politics but by my position in Nigeria and in Africa and without being immodest and indeed in the world, my door must be opened and it is open to any individual or group of individuals who want to seek my opinion, view or advice on any issue or matter and I will respond to the best of my ability, without being part of that individual or group”.

The former president, who is in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a guest of President Ashraf Ghani, further said; “In my part of the world, when you say goodnight in a place, you do not go back there and say good evening. The one who reported that may need to visit Yaba Left. And those who believe it can believe that their mothers are men.

“It is the party of Nigeria which must be saved, kept wholesomely united in peace, security, equity, development and progress.”

He urged those who want to use the back door to force him to return to partisan politics to respect his choice to remain a non-partisan statesman, adding that he would continue to perform his role as a statesman focused on providing counsel, support, or solutions wherever possible in Nigeria, Africa and indeed the world.