AMODU, ABUJA
The new National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Adamu Mu' Azu
yesterday held a closed-door meeting with former
president Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hilltop
Mansion in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
Mu'Azu, who arrived Abeokuta at about 3: 30p.m
was received by his host, Obasanjo and they went
into a meeting which lasted about two hours.
The deposed national auditor of the party, Chief
Bode Mustapha and Chief Andy Uba were also in
attendance.
Although journalists were barred from the
meeting, Daily Sun gathered that Mu'Azu's visit
was unconnected with the crisis rocking the state
chapter of the party and the former president's
current disposition to the party.
Efforts to speak with the PDP chairman failed as
he hurriedly entered his car after the meeting at
about 6.48pm.
But former member of the House of
Representatives and Ogun State PDP governorship
aspirant, Kayode Jelili Amusan, who was also at
the meeting, confirmed that his visit was not
unconnected with the crisis in the state chapter of
the party.
Amusan, who described Obasanjo as a strong
factor in the country's polity, stressed that it
would be difficult for anyone to come on board the
management of the affairs of the party without
visiting the former president.
Meanwhile, PDP National Working Committee has
denied allegation of financial sleaze, levelled
against the new national chairman of the party,
Adamu Muazu, during his administration of Bauchi
state.
The media had been awash with reports that the
former Bauchi State governor was under
investigation by the EFCC over alleged
misappropriation of public funds while in office.
But reacting through a statement in Abuja, the
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa
Metuh, declared that at no time was the governor
indicted. He stated that the recommendation of a
White Paper in which the former governor was
indicted was challenged in court and subsequently
dismissed by the Chief Judge of Bauchi State,
Justice Mohammed Ibrahim Zango.
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