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Obasanjo to PDP: purge yourselves of bad eggs ahead of 2023

April 1, 2019 9:41 pm

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to purge itself of “bad eggs and hypocrites” who “lack the commitment” to return the opposition party to its lost glory.

Obasanjo rued that many of the PDP leaders still preoccupy themselves with what ministers to “their pockets and stomach”.

He wondered why some of them left the party and others lost hope as soon as the results of the 2019 presidential election were announced.

The former president spoke on Sunday evening when Southwest PDP leaders, led by the party’s National Vice Chairman (Southwest), Dr. Eddy Olafeso, visited him …

NOUN apologises to Obasanjo over salary controversy

March 21, 2019 10:08 pm

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has tendered an unreserved apology to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, over a news report that he was taking on the payroll of the university as a facilitator.

The university further made it clear that the elder statesman had accepted to be rendering free services to the university in the same capacity.

The university made this known on Thursday in Abuja, through a statement signed by Mr Ibrahim Sheme, its Director of Media and Publicity.

The university said it was reacting to a story in a national newspaper on Wednesday that Obasanjo would

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