{"id":43305,"date":"2024-05-15T08:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=43305"},"modified":"2024-05-15T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:37:41","slug":"finally-obasanjo-quits-partisan-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=43305","title":{"rendered":"Finally,\u00a0\u00a0Obasanjo Quits Partisan Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo reiterated his retirement from party politics during a visit to Osogbo, Osun State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">While affirming his past association with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Obasanjo clarified that he has retired from active involvement in party politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Commissioning the VIP lodge at the Government House, he commended Governor Ademola Adeleke for his governance style and efforts to complete abandoned projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Addressing Adeleke, Obasanjo praised him for his multifaceted approach to governance, highlighting that being a \u201cdancing governor\u201d does not detract from his effectiveness as a leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">His words: \u201cSome people once despised you for being a dancer, but I maintained that only happy people dance. You are my dancing partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Obasanjo described Osun as a complex state, saying, \u201cIt is not difficult to govern; it only requires the fear of God, openness, and good character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u201cWhat I have heard and seen since three days ago that I have been here, if there is doubt in anybody that you are working, tell the person to come and see. If you remember there was a time I phoned you, and I said don\u2019t hate dancing, but as you are dancing, ensure you are working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3025707748gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u201cIf I say that I don\u2019t know what happened before you get to the government, it is a lie. But, you did something last week Sunday, by calling leaders of your party. It was my party but I am not participating in party politics again. 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I have talked to two out of three of them, it is a good move which is not only good for the party but also good for the State and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo reiterated his retirement from party politics during a visit to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finally,\u00a0\u00a0Obasanjo Quits Partisan Politics -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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