Obasanjo: PDP is in coma

                                            
What can possibly save the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from going under?
Its former leader, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, provided an answer yesterday: send it for an intensive care.
Obasanjo, reviewing  the current state of the party on which  platform he won the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections, likened it to a patient in comatose  and in need of an intensive care.
The party is torn down the line with two factions fighting for its soul.
Leading one faction is former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi who goes by the title Chairman, National Caretaker Committee, while former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff leads the other.
He claims to be acting national chairman.
Obasanjo met behind closed door yesterday in his Abeokuta residence with Sheriff apparently on the crisis.
As he emerged from the meeting, the former president told reporters that the PDP under his leadership was vibrant.
That vibrancy, according to him, is now long gone.
Also gone, he said, is the soul of the party.
His words: “I was once the leader, for eight years. I was the leader of PDP but the PDP that I was the leader of is not the PDP of today.
“The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are, unfortunately, either in the country or out of the country unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of the country.