A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has said that he has not jettisoned his plan to relocate from Nigeria upon APC flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
He said this in an interview with Sunday Punch.
Asked if he would be relocating, he said, “That is still on my plan. If I decide on what to do, I wish you well. I’m not looking for a job, I have everything I want and how much can I eat?
“I also have my children and they are no longer kids. They are all mature so what am I looking for? My wife is there. She will take good care of me. I will stay in Nigeria depending on the outcome of this because I know there might be a hell of a problem.”
Asked which country he would be relocating to, George said, “You know I am a military lord so I can go anywhere in any part of the world and I will be looking at you, people.
“I have even decided that having put 25 years each in the military and politics which is 50 years of my life in the public domain, I need rest so whatever I see at the end of this thing. I’m retiring from partisan politics and will be enjoying the rest of my life,” Bode George.
The PDP chieftain blamed the party’s loss in the presidential election to division within its ranks.
“In our party, I kept shouting and reminding these people that a divided house will be a defeated house.
“We have created the avenue for these things but that will be a port-mortem analysis within the party. As an elder in the party and a member of the Board of Trustees, we saw it coming.
“We discussed it because of the failings of the managers of the party. I told them that the South-West had been completely disenfranchised.
“Look at the way those children came out. The kids between the ages of 18 and 35 came out in millions believing this is the time. They want to change the direction of Nigeria but what did we give them?” George said.
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