Don’t abandon PDP, Mark, Gbenga Daniel beg Obasanjo

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) President of the Senate, David Mark and former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel, yesterday begged former President, Olusegun Obasanjo not to abandon the party.
Daniel, who spoke at the party national secretariat in Abuja when he led members of Labour Party back to PDP, apologised for any wrong done to him in the party, adding that he should not abandon the house he built.
“Let me seize this opportunity to publicly apologise to the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Whenever there is a quarrel between a son and a father, the son can never be right even if it is a battle of principle. We therefore plead that President Obasanjo should be called upon that he cannot abandon his house. All we the children are standing by to apologise and apologise and apologise again,” he said.

Daniel added that “I have returned to my party. There is no situation in where there is no differences, these differences have been settled. All the challenges we have in PDP have been settled.
“If Labour Party is actually strong in Ogun state can it swallow PDP? It is the big fish that swallow the small fish and today PDP has swallowed Labour Party.”
Daniel, who was at the PDP with Ondo state governor, Olusegun Mimiko and other members of Labour Party said “we have learnt our lesson.”

According to him, “What we are talking about is automatic waiver and this issue of automatic waiver has been guaranteed. I Otunmba Gbenga Daniel former governor of Ogun state for eight years am now back to the PDP.”
Also apologising, the National Chairman of PDP, Adamu Mu’azu said, “I want to join OGD, I want to join my dear senior brother and indeed all the teeming members here to very sincerely apologise to our leader, to our baba, my baba, General, President Olusegun Obasanjo to forgive us.
“We cannot continue. I know he has been very prayerful. In the Villa, I know he used to pray every morning. Very early, 5:30 to 6am, he is praying.
“And I know he keeps on praying all the time. As we say in our Lord’s Prayer: “Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

“Baba, you have to forgive us. I beg you in the name of the almighty God, so that you too are forgiven. We are your children. We are making mistakes, we have made mistakes, we have apologised, we will not agree even if you want to throw the baby with the bath water, the baby will not go with you. So, please baba, we apologise.
“Come and lead us. Even the president is waiting for you. Come and lead us. You are our leader, we appreciate you, we thank you for your leadership. We thank you for your courage. And we assure you that by the grace of God, we are all good boys and girls.”
In his comments, the Senate President, Senator David Mark who doubles as the chairman of the PDP South-west Integration Committee said that a new wind is sweeping all the six states of the zone back to the PDP.
The senate president said that all the former members who are returning back to the party were on self exile, while describing the PDP as the true democratic party that is not under the directives of a single national leader.