Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state has described the exit of Olusegun Obasanjo from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “a fatal blow which points to the fact that the death warrant of the party is about to be signed.”
Speaking to journalists in Kano yesterday, he said the former president “is a personality of great substance whose influence as a politician and eler statesman is too important to be ignored,” adding that “top notchers in the party under rating his exit are only shedding crocodile tears.”
According to him, the five governors that have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress were vindicated for seeing the futility of remaining in the party that that had lost credibility and steam saying the PDP is on road to extinction in the face of the abysmal rot rocking its leadership.
He stated that the five governors had proven to everyone that they have political might to decide the fate of the party given the spectacular role they played in making it formidable affirming that the party had failed to live up to its billing in giving democracy a human face.
He said: “At the time we were telling people that we can pull a suprise when we left the party, it appears that many people did not believed us .now that we left they have started realizing the fact that a great damage has been done.
“We have already realised the fact that the party had completely derailed at the behest of a cabal whose egocentric ambition was only making matters worse. We cannot just wait and allow things to drift.”
On the postponement of elections, Kwankwaso said he was not suprised by the decision taken as it was informed by the fact that the PDP was poised to suffer a crushing defeat at the polls saying no amount of postponement could ever make the electorate to change their mind.
Commenting on the alleged disbursement of slush funds to clerics, students, academics and pressure groups Kwankwaso described the ugly trend as a manifestation of corruption in high places stressing however that the people of the country were wise enough to discern a subtle ploy to deceive, affirming that the wind of change was blowing across the nation and the change had become inevitable.