Obasanjo Says Good Night To PDP

Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President as at yesterday  said good night to the Peoples Democratic Pary (PDP) as the party found it self in further crisis s. He said this in Jalingo, Taraba State capitial while feilding questions from newsmen. He also said that he went to assess some of the projects started during his tenure in order to grow the economy of Taraba and the country at large. Obasanjo, who said that he had already told PDP ‘good night’, when asked to comment on the lingering crisis in the party which now has two factional national chairmen, said he cannot return to say ‘good evening’. “In the part of the country where I come from, there is a saying that you cannot say ‘good night’ and come back to say ‘good evening’ in the same place. “So for me, it is good night for the Peoples Democratic Party, and that’s all,”  Obasanjo said. He also expressed great confidence that The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government would surmount the present challenges before the country, while he urged the president to complete the hydroelectric project on the Mambilla Plateau. He went further to assert that- “So far, Buhari has not dissapointed us. I trust him (Buhari); he will not fail Nigerians. I know he will overcome the challenges the country is currently facing.” Obasanjo said that: “Taraba is a great resource to the nation’s progress,” and added that “the Buhari administration has to continue with the Mambilla Hydro Power Project in order to tackle the energy challenge of the country”. “I sited the Mambilla Hydro Power Project on the plateau due to the great potentials it has for electricity generation for the country,” he said. “Nigeria must complete the project because the cost is getting higher by the day, and if we do not do it today we must have to do it tomorrow.”

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