PDP's Chairman Peace talk with Obasanjo failed, Jonathan must honour his 2011 alleged promise not to contest in 2015 says ex-president Obasanjo.

Strong indications have emerged that efforts by the troubled Peoples
Democratic Party to make ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to have a
rethink on his decision to stay away from the party's activities have
failed.


"Baba (Obasanjo) is still insisting on issues he raised in his two
letters, particularly the restructuring of the party. He had said
that he would withdraw from the party's activities, until grievances
he mentioned in the letter to the PDP and the President are
addressed.

"On Jonathan's purported second (or third) term ambition, Obasanjo
stated that nothing had changed from what he wrote in the letter to
the President because it is a matter of honour."

Investigations by Punch on Thursday showed that Obasanjo insisted
when the new PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu'azu visited him on
January 26, 2015, that Jonathan must honour his alleged promise in
2011 not to contest the 2015 presidential election.

A very reliable PDP national officer confided in Punch that Obasanjo
also gave other conditions that the new leadership of the party must
meet before he would have a change of mind.

They include the restructuring of the party as well as the correction
of the anomalies relating to the removal of Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the
national secretary of the PDP and Bode Mustapha as national auditor in
2013.

Mu'azu was reported to have, during the closed-door meeting in
Abeokuta, pleaded with Obasanjo to back the President's alleged 2015
interest and other activities of the ruling party.

Our source said that Obasanjo told Mu'azu bluntly to address the core
issues in PDP if things must change.

Obasnjo had in the letter to the President said, "Only a fool would
believe that statement you made to me judging by what is going on. I
must say that is not ingenious. You may wish to pursue a more credible
and more honourable path."

The ex-President added that in 2011, Benue State Governor, Gabriel
Suswan, informed him that Jonathan had accepted a one-term Presidency
and it was on that basis he supported Jonathan.
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