Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he will never quit the Peoples Democratic Party Party (PDP),.
He said this on Sunday while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Chief Obasanjo was speaking against the backdrop of an appeal made by the leadership of the party, asking for his forgiveness in any way the party had wronged him.
He also noted that he bore no grudge against anyone in the party, but was dissatisfied with the choice of Mr. Buruji Kashamu as the Chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation committee of the party in the South-West.
He insisted that he is still a card carrying and active member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but he opined he would only be active at ward level as against the national level, until issues raised by him concerning the party were addressed.
Obasanjo added that he had never for once left the party, noting that the issue of re-inviting him back was mere misrepresentation.
“Sometimes last week, when I was in South Africa as the Chairman of African Union (AU) Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan and while with my fellow commissioners, we were deliberating on how to help that new country out of its problem of security and violence, I received avalanche of news and cacophony of appeals and pleadings from some quarters of PDP leadership.
“There are misunderstandings and misrepresentations which some of those appeals and pleas manifested; hence this explanation from me.
“Talking of inviting me back to PDP is wrong and it is a great misrepresentation, as I have never left PDP and I will never leave PDP.
“I have said it before and I will say it again, I rose to become the president of Nigeria on the platform of PDP and for that reason alone, I will remain a card-carrying and ward-active member of PDP for as long as I have to be a political party member,” he said.