We’ll continue to tolerate Obasanjo –PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee
(NWC) has said it will continue to tolerate former president
Olusegun Obasanjo despite his sustained criticism of the
party.
At a recent session with market women in the South-West
zone at his Abeokuta residence in Ogun State capital, the
former president accused the PDP-led Federal Government of
squandering the nation’s foreign reserves.
Last Friday, Chief Obasanjo also endorsed Ogun State
Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship
candidate, Ibikunle Amosun for next month’s governorship
election, as against Gboyega Isiaka, the PDP candidate.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, National Publicity
Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, said the party would not
reprimand the former president, but would rather tolerate him.
Metuh said: “We have tremendous respect for him, our party
brought him to reckoning. We have ruled for 16 years with
achievements and some of them made under Chief Obasanjo
administration.
“So, we won’t accuse him in public. We appreciate him and
we want his support.”
The PDP national publicity scribe also dismissed insinuations
in certain quarters that the Federal Government decided to
reduce the pump price of petroleum products to win the
sympathy of Nigerians ahead next month’s elections.
Metuh told newsmen that it was purely an economic decision
informed by the fall in crude oil in the international oil market.