Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is reportedly working on establishing a new political party to accommodate aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to reports from sources familiar with the matter, the former Head of State is concerned by the state of the two parties and is convinced that their political and legal conflicts could leave them in no place to rule come 2023.
The source told the Vanguard that the supposedly retired Obasanjo is still heavily recruiting loyalists for his yet-to-be-announced party.
The source said: “Even as the name for the hybrid party has not been made public as we speak, Baba (Obasanjo) is seriously mobilising his keen loyalists and die-hard supporters across the country to actualise his dream of installing a government that would be answerable to him.”
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The source said Obasanjo is increasingly becoming worried over what he described as the overbearing influence of a South-South governor in the PDP and his simmering altercation with the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus.
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“Baba is afraid of the growing personalisation of the party by one man and the growing rancour with other stakeholders of the PDP, and he does not want to put all his eggs into the troubled ship,” the source said.
“In fact, it was for these reasons that the former President has been moving round and consulting with those he believes can help in realising the new political thinking.”
According to reports, Obasanjo has scheduled a meeting with the new political recruits on July 13 to assess the group’s progress.
It is expected that three former governors of Osun, Jigawa and Kwara states and other coordinators drawn from across the six zones of the country and the structure of the fledgling political movement would be fleshed out.
“The three former governors are to subtly coordinate the activities of the hybrid party in the North-West, North-Central and South-west zones, while efforts are being made to name more coordinators for the remaining areas of the country,” the source said.
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