There
was a mild drama on Friday at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, the venue of
the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party national convention committee,
as former President Olusegun Obasanjo was sighted on the premises.
The
former President was at centre to attend a programme on Agriculture while the
PDP leaders were also at the same premises to attend their party’s event.
Obasanjo
had on February 16, 2015, torn his PDP membership card, saying he was leaving
the party for good.
Interestingly,
leaders of the PDP rushed to pay homage to the former President when he was
sighted at the venue.
The
PDP convention holds in Port Harcourt on August 17.
It
was gathered that one of the administrators of the building had alerted the PDP
leaders of the presence of Obasanjo in the building.
It
was gathered that as soon as the party leaders were informed about Obasanjo’s
presence, they rushed out to greet him.
Among
those that were said to have rushed out to pay homage to the leader of the
party included its National Chairman in charge of the National Caretaker
Committee, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi; the Secretary of the committee, Sen. Ben Obi and
a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu.
The
former President greeted them briefly and proceeded to attend the programme he
had come for.
Leaders
of the party had been visiting its aggrieved members with the aim of
reconciling them with the now factionalised party but they had yet to visit the
former President.
Members
of the Board of Trustees of the party visited former President Goodluck
Jonathan in Abuja two days ago.
They
had earlier visited the home of a former Minister of Finance, Adamu Ciroma.
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