A legal practitioner, Professor Itsay Sagay, has applauded the exit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the PDP and partisan politics. In an interview with The Guardian, Sagay bemoaned what he described as the predatory status the PDP has been reduced to.’ He noted that no genuine statesman or leader with conscience would want to continue to be in the party which has brazenly betrayed the founding objectives and of the founding fathers.’
“PDP today a diametric opposite to the founding mission of the founding fathers has become a parasite that is sucking the country dry, spreading poverty and worsening the living standards of the ordinary Nigerians who are in the vast majority, taking and celebrating corruption to high heavens.
So the Obasanjo that many of us know could certainly no longer remain in such a group, especially going by his antecedent of fighting corruption and promoting transparency and accountability. So I foresee a ripple effect of the withdrawal of his membership on the party because I hold the belief that there are still some noble and statesmen left in the party that may also not be able to tolerate the decadence the party has been reduced to,” the legal icon said.
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