Breaking news**Obasanjo writes another Letter Leaves PDP

 This letter is to the chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to which he belongs, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. the one-page letter written on Thursday, a copy of which was sent to president Jonathan, Obasanjo declared that he would, temporarily, cease to be a member of the party or participate in any political activities at any level.

His decision, he said, is hinged on what he described as the handing over of the authority of the party, in the South-West, and particularly, his home state, Ogun, to the chairman of the South West PDP Mobilisation and Organisation Committee, Buruji Kashamu. Declaring Kashamu as unfit for any leadership post in the party, he described him as a drug baron who has cases to answer in the United States of America. The sources said the former president said with such a person as Kashamu in the leadership position of the party, he had no choice but to opt out pending when the anomaly, among others, is corrected.

To buttress his point, the sources said, Obasanjo attached some documents to prove his claim that Kashamu is indeed a drug baron. It would be recalled that the “season of letters” was opened recently by Obasanjo, in a missive to Jonathan. In the letter which blew the frosty relationship between him and Jonathan into the open, Obasanjo accused the president of ineptitude, promoting corruption and pursuing agenda that could destroy the country. The 18-page letter is titled “Before it is too late” and dated December 2, 2013.

In the letter, Obasanjo also lamented that Jonathan had become terribly divisive and clannish, destroying his own party, polarising the country along regional and religious lines and ridiculing Nigeria in the comity of nations. He also blamed Jonathan for the crises tearing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, apart., noting that apart from using party chairman, Bamanga Tukur, to cause multiple crises and divide the ranks of the party, the president’s failure to keep a promise he made not to seek a second term is also generating tension within the ruling party.

The former president also accused Jonathan of placing over 1000 Nigerians on political watch list and allegedly “training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his killers.” Obasanjo, in his letter also took a swipe at the chairman of South-West Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Mobilisation and Organisation Committee, Buruji Kashamu, and many others.