After becoming President, Jonathan blew the opportunity of becoming a statesman and, instead chose to become a gangster. He swallowed the poison of greed alone. He will die alone. The ongoing crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is deepening by the day. I was among the skeptics that dismissed the crisis as one of those that the ruling party would weather. However, there are many indications that this one is proving to be different. Comparison We have seen the disenchanted founding fathers of the PDP leave the party or politics entirely, one after another. Few, like Audu Ogbeh, its former chairman, joined other parties and remained there. However, many, like Atiku Abubakar, Abubakar Rimi, Ghali Na’abba, etc, returned to the witch-mother, quickly or eventually. The overall picture that we have of such decampments is that for reasons of power and wealth, PDP members can hardly survive outside the party as long as it continues to occupy the presidency.

In previous conflicts, it was easy for the party and the president to use the material resources at their disposal and the power invested in his position to buy disgruntled elements back or force them to return. More important than the two is the fact that since they are hardly popular, PDP politicians cannot stand on their own outside the party and survive in the harsh weather of opposition politics. This was highlighted by senior special assistant (on public affairs) to the President just a month ago when he said that the rebelling governors must eventually return to PDP because they cannot afford to abandon the winning party. Subsequent developments show that he may be wrong. What makes this crisis different is a combination of many things. One, the new PDP faction is engineered by a good number of governors from states that cannot be ignored by the President in his election arithmetic. To lose seven will be substantial. They are outgoing, not in need of the party to give them a second chance, and from sta

ates that have substantial amount of votes. There are many first tenure governors belonging to their camp, claimed the rebelling governors, but who are advised to keep their heads low in view of the complications they may face now. Never in the history of the PDP was it faced with a gang of seven governors. Atiku might have had many governors behind him but since he was central in the revolt against Obasanjo, persuading him and threatening the governors with EFCC was enough to close that chapter. And when he left the PDP and joined hands with the AD to form AC, he did not go with any governor behind him. The situation outside the PDP has also contributed immensely. The formation of the APC has provided the rebelling governors with an alternative to join or align with in order to give the obstinate President a good run for his money. PDP no longer enjoys the monopoly of winning an election. It is not the winning party, as Okupe would like us to believe. Abandoning it is no longer a class suicide. Okupe himself has realised this and is tuning down his rhetoric of dismissing the aggrieved governors. Also, the crises have hit the President when he is weakest especially with his breakup with the architect of his presidency, the former dictator president, Obasanjo. Essentially, the President has miscalculated that he could dispense with Obasanjo and get away with it, seeing, among other setbacks that the latter suffered recently, that he could not even get his daughter win a senatorial seat, that he could not install a speaker or Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees and, after all, he no longer enjoys an incumbent control over state resources as he used to do when he plotted the ascendency of the present President. Jonathan is misled by Mr. Fix It and his position- happy assistants, forgetting that Mr. Fix too could not even fix his Edo constituency which he lost to ACN. More than the Obasanjo factor, Jonathan is not assisted by his lack of popularity among Nigerians, arising mainly from his widely believed incompetence, which he did everything to prove right, willingly. If he had worked hard to earn the trust and support of Nigerians through good governance, he would have been in a position to pitch the masses against the governors. Instead, his tenure has proved to be a disaster and as corrupt as any Third World leader could be.

source: www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/144317-2015-arithmetic-bad-luck-dr-aliyu-u-tilde.html

Oga o!
Which kind OP be ds?

U didn't even leave the number 1 slot for anybody willing to be the firstus de commentos of this thread!

U just used everything!

Anyway, i leave revenge for God!

But yet on the 4th slot, officially, i'm d firstus de commentos!

Well, abt ur topic:

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Dr Tilde should say how many delegates followed the renegade governors, r6, walkout of the successful Convention. If they have the courage to leave PDP, what are they waiting for? Many powerful Hausa/Fulani rising stars are eagerly waiting to take over PDP party structures from these outgoing 2nd term renegades, that have nothing again to offer. They're afraid of EFCC, and the real possibility of becoming irrelevant.

SLIDE waxie: Oga o!
Which kind OP be ds?

U didn't even leave the number 1 slot for anybody willing to be the firstus de commentos of this thread!

U just used everything!

Anyway, i leave revenge for God!

But yet on the 4th slot, officially, i'm d firstus de commentos!

Well, abt ur topic:

NO COMMENT

I think is high time ASUU call-off this fucking strike.

SLIDE waxie: Oga o!
Which kind OP be ds?

U didn't even leave the number 1 slot for anybody willing to be the firstus de commentos of this thread!

U just used everything!

Anyway, i leave revenge for God!

But yet on the 4th slot, officially, i'm d firstus de commentos!

Well, abt ur topic:

NO COMMENT

I think is high time ASUU call-off this fucking strike.