by Kolapo Olapoju

Chief Edwin Clark, Ijaw national leader, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should have expelled former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, a long time ago.

Clark, who is an ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, says most of the ruling party’s chieftains and people in the present administration, are Obasanjo’s loyalists, and as such, saw nothing wrong with his ‘anti-party activities’.

In a recent interview with Vanguard, Clark said: “You asked me earlier whether some of the party leaders surrounding Jonathan are not contributing to some of the problems that people alleged have been committed and I said yes. Some of them were with Obasanjo, past governors; some ministers who were appointed by Obasanjo during his tenure see nothing wrong with Obasanjo.”

“They continue to beg him when they know that the man has taken a position against the PDP. When people like us criticize Obasanjo, they say we are controversial, that we heat up the polity.”

“Today, Obasanjo has told them; he did not only dump them, he told the public, ‘here is your membership, take it’, and he tore it into pieces. Is that action normal? But it is now clear to the PDP men, leaders who were protecting Obasanjo when I called that he should be expelled.”

“They said that there was no reason for me to say that. But now it has happened, it is now clear. As far as I am concerned, Obasanjo has been engaging in anti-party activities and should have been expelled since then. Immediately he resigned the chairmanship of the BoT, he engaged in anti-party issues.”