Obasanjo’s claim that we’re gasping for breath only exists in his imagination – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has responded to the recent assertion by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, that the party is gasping for breath, insisting that such claim existed only in the imagination of those making it.

The former president had while debunking a photo news which went viral on the social media, where he was alleged to have attended a PDP event held in Abuja, said through his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, that he left the party when it was alive and bubbling, therefore, could not have rejoined “a now divided, factionalised party gasping for breath.”

But the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, made a veiled reference to Obasanjo yesterday while inaugurating an 18-member peace committee headed by Prof. Jerry Gana.According to him, “Leaders who are talking in newspapers that this party is not alive, the party is alive. It is only in the imagination of those saying that this party is dead and that it will not come back.

Apparently referring to Obasanjo, he said,“Such people should change their minds. If he comes back to this party, we are ready to receive him,” Jibrin said.