Obasanjo’s Letter: PDP Governors’ Must Speak Up – Group

A group known as the Northwest Solidarity Forum (NSF) has described the silence of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governors on the controversial letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan as worrisome.

The group’s Zonal Leader, Alhaji Abubakar Danfulani, said in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja that the PDP governors’ silence was not only worrisome to the Forum, but an indication that the governors are ‘sympathetic’ to Mr. Obasanjo’s cause since he was purportedly responsible for the election of majority of them.

In the statement titled “Obasanjo’s letter: Where are the PDP governors?” the Forum said it was concerned about the content of the 18-page letter which centered on issues of governance and exposed details of such other issues which should not have entered public space.

The statement reads: “while the Forum is still pondering the motivation behind the declassification of the letter by Chief Obasanjo, it is quite surprising that none of the governors of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) have deemed it necessary to intervene in the matter through measured comments that will engender reconciliation.

“The silence in the camp of the PDP governors is worrisome. It gives the Forum the impression that the governors may be sympathetic to the cause of Chief Obasanjo since he was said to have been responsible for the election of no fewer than 18 out of the 23 of them (out of which five have now defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“But is that enough reason to keep mute and stand the risk of being complicit in the grand plan by the former President to expose the underbelly of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to attacks by the opposition elements?

“At this point, the PDP governors who believe in the survival of the Federal Government and the PDP cannot afford to sit on the fence or keep mute.

“They cannot afford to pander to the whims and caprices of an individual who has a personal axe to grind with President Jonathan at the detriment of the Federal Government and the ruling PDP.

“They must stand up to save the government and the party from the grand conspiratorial alliances that are being maliciously coupled by Chief Obasanjo with a view to undermining the Federal Government under the watch of President Jonathan”, the Forum said.