Obasanjo plotting to produce APC’s Vice President, says Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday, accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, of plotting to produce the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 2015 elections.
The governor, who addressed journalists through his Special Adviser on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said it is high time the party checked the alleged excesses of the former leader, saying, “Obasanjo is a man who can never be pleased.  His principle of life is, if it is not his way, it must not be another person’s way.”

According to him, Obasanjo was already a member of the APC and he was pushing for one of his loyalists to be the party’s vice presidential candidate.
“Even if President Jonathan gives Obasanjo his blood today, he (Obasanjo) cannot change because he is already neck deep in the APC agenda with his eyes on the vice presidential ticket of the party.
“Therefore, no amount of visits by PDP governors can make him change his mind about President Jonathan, whom he hates, not because he has not performed but because he (Jonathan) did not hand over his presidency to him.”
He urged the PDP to, as a matter of urgency, sanction the former President over his sustained attacks on President Jonathan.
The governor said that PDP, as a party, must stop condoning indiscipline, saying, “nobody should be treated as being bigger than the party.”
He said Obasanjo does not appreciate others and, therefore, deserves no respect,” adding that “no amount of mudslinging from him will stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election.”
Fayose also condemned the visit of some PDP leaders to the former President, describing it as unnecessary and uncalled for.
The governor said that visiting Obasanjo to plead with him to rescind his decision not to participate in the party’s activities was capable of encouraging other members of the party to openly disrespect the office of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces of Nigeria, as being done by Obasanjo.
The governor called for the immediate suspension of the former president from the party saying, “a man who has refused to respect the office of the President of Nigeria that he once occupied does not also deserve respect from anyone.”
He urged the party to set up a panel to probe Obasanjo’s anti-party activities.
The governor, who described Obasanjo as one of the major problems of Nigeria, added that the former President’s open castigation of President Jonathan was unbecoming of someone who led the country for 11 years.
He said: “Have you ever heard a former President of the United States of America (USA) openly abusing a sitting President of the country?
“Does it mean that former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, agreed with all the policies of George W. Bush, and the incumbent president, Barack Obama?
“Obasanjo is behaving un-presidential and he must be told to respect himself.”