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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised the PDP-led CUPP against making it a merger party, his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said on Saturday.
Akinyemi also revealed that chieftains of the PDP apologised to the former President for ‘‘bad conduct and mistreatment.”
National Chairman of the PDP Uche Secondus, on Saturday, led a 21-member delegation of the party’s National Working Committee on a courtesy call on Obasanjo.
During the meeting, Secondus, according to Akinyemi, raised other issues concerning the situation in Nigeria, including the progress of the Memorandum of Understanding on grand alliance of the Coalition of United Political Parties.
He said the PDP National Chairman also appealed to Obasanjo to continue to proffer solutions to the nation’s socio-economic and political problems.
‘‘The MoU for grand alliance is what it says, a grand alliance. It is neither a merger nor absorption of any political party by any political party,” Akinyemi said in a statement.
‘‘It is clear for the parties which agreed to be members of the alliance to work together to achieve one important common objective at the national level for the election of 2019.
‘‘Where it is appropriate and necessary, members may also form alliance and co-operation at the state level.
‘‘The individuality and independence of each political party must be observed and respected by all parties concerned.
‘‘It is also desirable that in the process of implementing the MoU to achieve the set objective, solidarity and focus on the objective must be maintained.
‘‘Each member political party must be cautious of fake news, rumours, blackmail, and seeds of discord that may be sown among them from external quarters.”