PARIS,
NOVEMBER 12, 2016: (DGW) FRESH facts have , indeed , emerged on the
alleged tearing of the Peoples' Democratic Party membership card by
former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Our source who spoke
recently to the aide of the former President of Nigeria in Abuja,
Nigeria said Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did not openly tear his PDP
membership card as widely reported by the Nigerian press.
Recall
sometime in 2015, the ex-president while speaking at the Global
Education and Skills Forum, (GESF) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate,
said he did not tear his PDP membership card adding that he is not
aware, maybe somebody else did it if the story that made the rounds then
was anything to go by.
According to the former President, '' “I
didn’t openly tear my PDP membership card; somebody else tore it because
I said to him, ‘Here is the card, do whatever you like with it.
“If
you like keep it; if you like tear it, if you like burn it. Here it is
because they say it is giving them concern and they don’t know what is
happening.
''I did that to prove to them what is happening; I could not have torn the party's membership card.”
This
is in wake of the alleged threats made by Nigeria's literary giant ,
Prof Wole's Soyinka to tear his American Green Card if Donald Trump wins
the US presidential election.
Obasanjo's aide faulted the
threat adding that it amounts to a criminal offence which is not only
actionable but also punishable that is capable of earning Soyinka a
custodial sentence if the threat is by any act of omission or commission
carried out.
Speaking further, our source produced a photograph
of the former president where he publicly displayed his PDP membership
card saying that Obasanjo though no longer an active member of the
former ruling party did not tear the party's property knowing full well
what it would amount to.
On the contrary, pictorial evidence in
the photograph below shows where what looks like the card in contention
was actually torn. What is being called in question here, however, is
if the damaged property belongs to the former President.
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