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A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, yesterday, in Benin City, declared that the zoning arrangement of the party, jettisoned after the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, led to the defeat of the party in the last presidential election.
Ebenezer Babatope
He said, therefore, that for the PDP to stand a chance in regaining the presidency in 2019, the party may have to pick its presidential candidate from the North, adding that, apart from impunity and arbitrariness, imposition, allegedly exhibited by the PDP “bureaucracy ahead of the elections, the PDP did not resolve the agitation by northern leaders that the presidency should be ceded to the area due to the sudden death of Yar’Adua until the problem consumed the party and made way for the defeat in the 2015 presidential election”.
Babatope, who urged the PDP to imbibe internal democracy and allow the younger generation to take over the leadership, said, however, that the insinuation that President Muhammadu Buhari may not run in 2019 due to his age “ may become a major problem that may trigger a dangerous split in the party’s arrangement for 2019, and therefore we must be ready for 2019″.
The PDP leader spoke, yesterday, while delivering a lecture entitled: “Nigeria’s 16 Years of Democratic Experiment-Which Way Forward?, organized by Edo State New Dawn, a group under the PDP in the state. The event was attended by members of the party mainly from Edo South, led by the leader of the group and former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie; High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, chairman of the occasion; Dr Isimeme and Chief Samson Esemuede. Others are PDP governorship aspirant, Chief Solomon Edebiri; Hon.Ifaluyi Isibor and many others.
“Facts remain, however, that we (party elders) made mistakes in the preparations of our party for the elections. For example, it was wrong for our party’s Board of Trustees not have met when we were engulfed with the party campaigns for the elections. Our party played into the waiting hands of the opposition with this kind of situation,”Babatope stated.
“Any of the political parties in Nigeria that attempts to bring impunity to our system or that attempts to push off the effective voice of the people in the determination of its presidential candidate will kiss the political dust and sentence itself to total failure and collapse”.
In his welcome address, the leader of the New Dawn, Owie, said: “We are asking the 8th National Assembly to urgently commence the amendment of the Constitution which they have done twice to give autonomy to local government councils but unfortunately some House of Assembly that are rubber stamp turned it down because if you don’t have autonomy of the local government, Nigeria can’t develop the rural area.
“In the next line of amendment, any House of Assembly in Nigeria that votes against autonomy of the local government, the Nigeria Labour Congress, the ALGON, the market women and men should take possession of the Assembly, they wouldn’t sit until they support the autonomy of local government because enough is enough of destroying that arm”.
On his part, Dokpesi, who explained that the New Dawn in Edo was meant to rebuild the PDP collectively, said members were determined to “reconstruct this party and bring it back to power in Edo in 2016 and at the federal level in 2019”

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Ok

We knew dis b4

Pdp dn loss tey tey....forget all dis news about pdp.....na apc dey reign nw

ok

On point

PDP and is dead and buried that's what I know

So they know that the party has no internal democracy and it doesn't allow the younger generation take over abi? Too late shaa

Who cares?

This people don't want to accept that their poor performance cost them victory.

We know that, right




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Good analysis.

Okay, PDP should be thinking of how to bounce back and play the opposition.

Election loss hangover still they this people body, it further shows they never expected the defeat, when e everybody is already talking about government policies and supporting PMB, dis one is still talking about how they lost election, he said they loss cos wanted power but who tell dem sey North no go wan retain d power wey dem don get by 2019