Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Amadu Ali has bared his mind on former President Olusegun Obasanjo….

Amadu Ali

“My decision to support Obasanjo’s tenure extension was a personal one and I never used my position as party chairman to manipulate the system in favour of Obasanjo.”

“What happened was that in the previous PDP administration (1999-2003) a number of constitutional amendments – 106 of them – was proposed. The new House took up the unfinished business which had been publicised and gazetted and began to debate.”

“One of the proposed amendments was on the extension of the term of the President. The press focused on this one proposal and spawned new emotive descriptions to characterise the proposal as ‘President for life’, sit-tight President,’ tenure elongation campaign and so on.”

“Senator Amadu Ali had his personal views about it and in fact, supported Obasanjo’s ‘tenure elongation’ wholeheartedly because he genuinely believed that Obasanjo was an extraordinarily good leader in spite of his perceived failings.”

Amadu Ali said this in his biography titled, ‘The Many Colours of a Rainbow,’ launched on Thursday March 1st, 2018 in Abuja.