The visit by PDP leaders led by their new national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to President Olusegun Obasanjo last week suggests that they wanted him to be part of their party and play a critical role in helping to wake up the party and its leaders to the looming challenges of either returning to power in 2023 or remaining in the Siberia of political irrelevance in the foreseeable future. However, if they went to woo the former president back into their party, they were unfair to him and let the sun set prematurely on Africa's largest political party. The PDP leaders were wrong to try and own Obasanjo, but they should not have asked him to do what will taint him with the dark spots of partisan politics. He has seen it all and done it and must not be dragged back into his former party. His participation in any form in party politics will put unsightly spots on his credentials and prevent him from being the non-partisan guardian of the nation's conscience.
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