I warned that Obasanjo will kill the PDP the way he was handling it - Bankole
Chairman, Board of Trustee of Action Democratic Party, Alani Bankole has acussed former President, Olusegun Obasanjo of scuttling the efforts to resist individuals from being too powerful in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Bankole who was a chieftain of the PDP before his recent emergence as Chairman BoT ADP, said while he was in the PDP he and some leaders made frantic efforts to cut the power of individuals especially President, governors and others so as to salvage the party but were allegedly prevented by Obasanjo.
“Obasanjo took over both government and the Peoples Democratic Party,” Bankole told journalists on Sunday in Abeokuta during an interview adding that he warned the party that the act of the former President would end up killing the party.
“We have to remove the possibility of individuals being too strong for their people because there must be checks and balances.
“We did it in NPN and it was very successful, we tried to do it in PDP when we started, but Obasanjo scuttled it by taking over the structure of the party and the government and further encouraged the governors in the states to become leaders of the party in their states and as a result, nobody can question governors and no one can as well ask questions from the President at the federal level too except under the late Yar’dua.
“When Obasanjo started it, i warned them on OGTV on the 21st of November 2005 in Abeokuta here that, PDP was going to die because of the way Obasanjo was handling it and the way he was encouraging the governors in the states.
“Whenever there is no check and balance, the end is chaos and after that it is destruction.”
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