{"id":323654,"date":"2011-03-19T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/abuja-pdp-hands-off-obasanjo-daniel%e2%80%99s-feud\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:22:10","slug":"abuja-pdp-hands-off-obasanjo-daniels-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/abuja-pdp-hands-off-obasanjo-daniels-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja PDP hands off Obasanjo, Daniel\u2019s feud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*Ex-president, party chair meet<\/p>\n

By Henry Umoru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amid the insinuation that the apology by Governor Gbenga Daniel to former President Olusegun Obasanjo may have failed to resolve the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) impasse, the national leadership of the PDP says it has mandated the state chapter of the party to handle it.<\/p>\n

Signs that the truce between Obasanjo and Daniel did not finally resolve the crisis emerged when the group led by the governor defected from the PDP.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 PDP acting national chairman, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed,\u00a0 met with Obasanjo,\u00a0 yesterday, on the impasse.\u00a0 Sources close to the meeting quoted the president as telling the party chair\u00a0 that there was no problem. Mohammed, who confirmed the meeting,\u00a0 stressed that there is a party structure on ground in the state\u00a0 looking at the problem.<\/p>\n

The PDP\u00a0 boss\u00a0 noted that the national\u00a0 leadership of the party would not interfere in the internal affairs of the state chapter\u00a0 since there is a\u00a0 structure\u00a0 on ground. \u201cThere is a\u00a0 structure\u00a0 on ground, let us go through the structure\u00a0 in Ogun State. Ogun State PDP is looking at the matter\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n

The feud has raised the fear that the PDP may lose the state to the rival Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), especially if not resolved before the April polls. The polls are just weeks away.<\/p>\n

The pronouncement of the PDP acting national chairman that the party structure in the state would finally resolve the logjam also raises a fundamental question as to which structure he was referring to.<\/p>\n

Indeed, there are two factions of the PDP in Ogun identified with the governor and the former president respectively.<\/p>\n

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Daniel and Obasanjo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Daniel\u2019s faction had the backing of the national leadership but the court ruled in favour of the Obasanjo\u2019s group\u2019s primaries, leading to the result being upheld by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that following the parallel primaries of the PDP, held in Ogun State where the Daniel\u2019s camp produced the former managing director of Gateway Holdings, Gboyega Isiaka,\u00a0 as the gubernatorial candidate\u00a0 and Obasanjo\u2019s camp having the former ECOMOG commander, General Tunji Olurin, the centre could no longer hold in the state PDP.<\/p>\n

To further widen the\u00a0 logjam, Obasanjo\u2019s camp emerged victorious in the legal battles initiated on the state PDP gubernatorial candidacy\u00a0 just as\u00a0 Isiaka, Daniel group\u2019s gubernatorial\u00a0 candidate and his supporters dumped the PDP for the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN.<\/p>\n

As the rift, which had polarized\u00a0 Ogun PDP, continued, the governor,\u00a0 on Friday, March 11, 2011, visited\u00a0 the residence of former president and chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, to beg him for forgiveness.
The truce\u00a0 was facilitated by Obasanjo\u2019s classmate, the Olubara of Ibara, Abeokuta, Oba Jacob Omolade; Chief Afe Babalola, SAN; Chief Kessington Adebutu, among others.<\/p>\n

Said Daniel after the truce parley: \u201cLet me say this to you.\u00a0 I am a Yorubaman and, in Yoruba land, it doesn\u2019t matter who is right or wrong, it is the younger person that will beg the older person. I have begged Baba and I will continue to beg Baba.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

But, barely a week after the peace move and the apology\u00a0 by the governor, there were reports\u00a0 of\u00a0 fresh crisis with the defection of the governor\u2019s supporters from the PDP. Daniel, however, said he was not part of the defection.<\/p>\n

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