The Yoruba Solidary Coalition has warned the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party that it stood the risk of losing the
entire South West if it does not address the marginalisation
of the area.
Coordinator of the group, Prof. Olawale Akintunde, said this
in a statement sent to our correspondent via e-mail, on
Tuesday.
He said members of the group were of the unanimous
opinion that the zonal congress of the party held in Ibadan,
was a sham as such should be cancelled and a fresh one
conducted.
Akintunde said the congress which took place on Saturday,
October 11, was at best, an attempt to insult the
intelligence of the Yoruba people who are the largest ethnic
group in Nigeria and the bedrock of Nigeria’s intelligentsia.
The group observed that the marginalisation of the South-
West and its people was giving it great source for concern.
It cautioned the PDP against taking the region for granted
in the march towards 2015.
The statement partly read, “How can a controversial
uneducated person for whom a Warrant of Arrest has been
issued in the USA for criminal offences confirmed by the
Embassy of the USA in Nigeria organise a so-called ‘political
zonal congress’ with 48 hours notice to ‘selected’
candidates with screening in an undisclosed hidden
location resulting in the absence of 14 resourceful
competent candidates and a pre-arranged list of results for
22 positions of the Party’s Zonal Exco!
“Only 12 positions were ‘discussed’ and the pre-arranged
list was adopted. Those who never purchased or submitted
forms for the various positions were ‘placed’ there as long
as they had submitted themselves to this questionable
character.
“The secretary position, which was normally zoned to
Lagos was deliberately manipulated to Ogun State, which
already had its normal slot, despite the protest of some
notable Leaders of the party in Lagos when positions were
being zoned last year.”
The group requested that the party, should as a matter of
urgency, act now and address this imbalance or suffer an
unimaginable defeat in the zone as in Osun State.
However, the chairman of the congress committee, Senator
Emmanuel Anosike, said his committee discharged its
functions with the seriousness and responsibility it
deserved.
He said “We conducted a credible exercise, I did not
choose the delegates, and we worked with the approved
delegate list.
“You know the level of political awareness in the south
west is such that you find respected people most of who
are not less than seventy years old turning up as
delegates. There were disagreements but the issues were
resolved.”

It is pitiable that anyone is still talking about "risk" at 5 minutes to midnight! There is nothing like risk anymore, the deed is done! PDP must be voted out forever in the SW!

The title is misleading.
I think the man is complaining about PDP's internal affairs.

Who still trust PDP

PDP=next year's opposition party