Baba Obasanjo takes a bow as PDP BoT Chairman

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FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure as chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ended abruptly yesterday.

He tendered his letter of resignation from the position which he has occupied since he stepped down from office as President on May 29, 2007.

He would have ended his five-year tenure in July. In a statement he personally signed and made exclusively available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja yesterday, Obasanjo said he had sent the letter to PDP chair Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

“I have formally sent in my letter of resignation as the Chairman of BoT of PDP to the National Chairman of the party as prescribed in the party’s constitution,” he said.

The former President added: “I have formally requested the President to allow my bowing out and to issue a short statement to that effect.

“By relieving myself of the responsibility for chairmanship of BoT of PDP, I will have a bit more time to devote to the international demand on me.”

He added that the step would give him time “to give some attention to mentoring across the board nationally and internationally in those areas that I have acquired some experience, expertise and in which I have something to share”.

Obasanjo said his exit would afford him more time to develop “my Presidential Library and to mobilising and encouraging investment in Nigeria and Africa”.

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