Saraki To PDP: Make Sure Our Agreement With Obaseki Stands

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stick to the terms reached with Governor Godwin Obaseki before the Edo State governor agreed to join the party.

Saraki made the appeal in a statement he issued to welcome Governor Obasek to the PDP.

The Edo State governor had announced his defection to the PDP on Friday, following his disqualification from the primary governorship election of his erstwhile party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Saraki thanked the Edo PDP and the national leadership of the party for their “sacrifice” that led to Obaseki’s defection.

He said, “That is why my appeal will, at this point, go to all of us, the leaders and stakeholders, who gave assurances that agreement will be honoured, we need to ensure that the NWC of our party plays its own supervisory role by making sure that those agreements entered into by the Governor and the local chapter should be kept, particularly since I am very sure they are all lawful and in the interest of peace and development of the state. That is the only way to keep our integrity intact.

“At this point, it will be odd if I fail to comment on the situation that led to the change of party by Governor Obaseki. While I have kept my cool and ignored all the verbal attacks directed at me by the suspended chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, I have always known that a day like this would come when his masquerade will dance naked in the market,”said the former senate president.

Governor Obaseki had revealed on Friday that he would be pursuing his second term bid on the platform of PDP.