Permit me to reply to an article titled -
Why Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
may Win again - by my brother Edozie
Okeiyi, Director of Media and Strategy,
Great Nigeria Movement, in the
globally acclaimed Sahareporters, one
of the moral forces of Nigeria's
fledgling democracy.
One would like to start by saying that
Edozie falls into the category of Chop-
Sand-Syndrome, found mostly among
my Igbo brothers, whose trajectory is
without scant regard that Ndigbo like
Dr Ogbonia Onu, are prominent in their
own right in All Progressives Congress
(APC), deliberately define the APC as
Yoruba and Hausa party. This is
wrong.
The Chop-Sand-Syndrome
proponents in the South East, will tell
you that APC being championed by
Yorubas and Hausas means that there
is nothing in the kitty for Ndigbo;
whether President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, GCFR, is performing or not.
They will wittingly or unwittingly ignore
the fact the shortest route to president
of Igbo extraction is APC; for if
President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR,
wins 2015 presidential election, the
earliest an Igbo can be president is
2027. But if APC wins the earliest for
the Igbos is 2023, this is because of
the moral weight of zoning convention
that is South-North primed.
Their basic canvass is that it is better
for Jonathan to continue, whether he
is clueless, runs unclean government
or cannot get things done. When you
tell them that Nigeria has never been
as divided as today; and hence needs
urgently to be fixed, whether a
Christian, Muslim, Igbo, Hausa or
Yoruba, since our dear president
cannot fix electricity, modern rail lines,
East-West road or the monster of
insurgency.
Their answer is anchored on ancient
prejudice arising from the Biafran civil
war. They will tell you that Ndigbo
have been, 'Chopping Sand' post civil
war and if Jonathan's victory can
make their brother contemporaries in
the Nigerian project to 'Chop Sand'
that will not be a bad idea.
If you make the mistake of reminding
them that the basic tenet of
Christianity and by extension Islam
and other faiths is forgiveness and that
our youths who make up more than
60% of our population were post civil
war citizens and must be spared this
stereo-type.
They will remind you of federal
character quota system that denied
them the competitive edge they could
have enjoyed in a saner clime.
When you re-echo that there is no war
fought in history without unintended
consequences; which requires
statesmanship and craftsmanship to
resolve, they quip, you are an idealist.
When you refer them to the current
National Conference to go and find out
why the Conference inspite of the fact
that it was packaged for
predetermined hidden agenda failed to
give the conveners the region they
some much cherished, they will blame
the North. They will not want to know
that Ebonyi, Enugu, Lagos and others
states voted against region.
Otherwise, how can Edozie deny the
fact that Nigeria has reached the
zenith of liberal democracy, where two
political parties dominate in a multi-
party system? Where neither PDP nor
APC can score more than 53% of total
votes cast in the 2015 presidential
election, nor win 2/3 of the National
and State Assemblies or 2/3 of the
governors of the 36 states.
We are without being immodest, in a
phase, where most importantly
bleeding national issues can no more
be treated as PDP family issues; ask
Mr President, he will tell you that if you
want to pass a bill today, pick $1
billion loan you must account, explain
and negotiate.
The truism is that PDP and APC are in
every ward, local government area and
state of the federation today, unlike in
the past where PDP was the only
national platform. This is the worry of
the leadership of the PDP, especially
for a political party that boasted to rule
uninterrupted for 60 years whether
they perform or not. This belies the
spin that APC is not strong, despite
the fact that the party is not in charge
of our security agencies and Oil
Signature.
We of the APC would have been glad if
the leadership of PDP are inclined to
Edozie's less than accurate analysis
that APC is not strong and confined to
only some limited sections of the
country. The fireworks going on in
Rivers and Katsina states for example
nor the gale of impeachment would not
be there.
That APC is a Muslim party, falls flat in
the face, if Edozie is not suffering from
Chop-Sand-Syndrome. Granted that
the Interim National Executive of the
APC by coincident was led by elder
statesman, Bisi Akande, a Muslim as
chairman, in 18 Muslim and 17
Christian ratio; coincident in the sense
that shortly before the registration of
APC on 31st July 2013, the ACN,
ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and
DPP, the legacy parties were allotted
offices and each in the mood of the
moment submitted names. How come
that the election of Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun, a Christian, in the prism of
Edozie and his Chop-Sand-Syndrome
cohorts did not convert the APC to a
Christian party?
For the avoidance of doubt, one will do
everything to shy away from
discussing persons, however permit
me to briefly submit that neither Chiefs
Tom Ikimi nor Femi Fani Kayode's
diatribe were premised on public nor
national interest . Fani Kayode unlike
Ikimi was an interloper in the APC and
therefore one will not discuss him, as
our great party will never file a
Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian
ticket in a divided Nigeria.
For Ikimi he was the lead co-chairman
of the Joint Merger Committee of the
legacy parties and worked tirelessly to
construct the merger. He gave all, but
his discontent in my estimation arose
in the last few days of the merger
committee meeting. As we were
wounding up with our
recommendations to the legacy
parties, senator Ahmed Yerima raised
a motion on the floor to the effect that
Chief Tom Ikimi be nominated as the
chairman Interim National Executive
Committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau as
secretary, Alhaji Garba Gadi as deputy
chairman, all representing the major
legacy parties, ACN, ANPP and CPC
respectively.The motion was adopted
and my humble self moved a counter
motion, basing my motion on the
doctrine of trite law which
unambiguously defines the
relationship between the agent and the
principal.
To cut the story short, Ikimi's ambition
to head the Interim National Executive
failed, as each party was allowed to
nominate their own slot. Methinks this
is his grouse with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, not for any public interest.

I know I will get to fp one day

Ktwice: I know I will get to fp one day

and today is the day

The title of the thread is misleading

Meanwhile PDP believe the presidency is their birthright. They will be shocked...

vicadex07: The title of the thread is misleading

Meanwhile PDP believe the presidency is their birthright. They will be shocked...

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