₦airaland Forum

The PDP and the premature hosanna

JULY 28, 2018

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo

The PDP is euphoric. But it must contain itself. Its concentration must be on the electoral map. It must formulate a concise message. No one has heard it say how it plans to curb corruption. All it does is hysterical lamentation of the poor performance of the ruling party. The PDP has been on the ropes for too long. Succor has come. PDP Defectors have poured in. Its supporters can be permitted to dance a little. They have grieved for too long. But the party must know it has an uphill task. 2019 is here.


The party cannot afford prolonged celebrations of ‘side nettings.’ I remember when the PDP welcomed Sheriff back with fanfare. They had thought he was the god that would deliver the northeast to them. Wike and Fayose later anointed him party chairman. Then the party was torn to shreds with litigation. Now they all think he was a well dressed mole. The PDP cannot be blamed for getting excited about the return of the defectors. The father of the prodigal son threw a party the day his wayward son returned. But he didn’t surrender himself to delusions. The PDP must not give its pearls to swines. It must not lapse into self congratulations.

The PDP can jubilate for a while. But it must settle down quickly and assess the real electoral value of the noisy defectors. It is true that politics is a game of numbers. But no one feels his bag with chaff and walks around like a man carrying gold. Let the party throw automatic tickets at the returnees. But let it bear in mind that many of those northern legislators came to victory in 2015 riding the Buhari hurricane. It’s good for the PDP to be optimistic. But it is better for it to be realistic. The country needs a virile opposition. But a robust opposition cannot be formed by a band of peripatetic fortune seekers with mercenary instincts roving from party to party. A firm opposition can only be founded on strong moral principles and sound policies. The PDP has relied on a perceived public disenchantment with the APC.


The opposition has not managed to craft any new message. It has not managed to re-brand and re market itself. And unfortunately, it has no pedigree that can recommend it to the public. And I guess it now knows that its history is an albatross. Perhaps that is why it feels its name is too filthy to be retained. But Nigerians don’t discard old names quickly. The election is six months away. NEPA is still NEPA, despite the fact that NEPA ceased to exist more than five years ago. Kingsway road is still Kingsway road in the mouths of Lagosians. And Douglas road has remained Douglas road in Owerri, despite recent renaming ceremonies. Let the PDP merry a little. But let it not get presumptuous. Some of those who defected had worked for the PDP while carrying brooms around, for almost three years now. They may not bring much in fresh energy. The PDP has been the de-facto majority in the Senate since Saraki ate the forbidden fruit and mounted the throne. The defections have given the PDP momentum, but the party needs a good steering wheel.


It must chart a moral and economic direction. It cannot afford to be the party that makes excuses for corruption and scowls at anti corruption agencies. We know the ruling party made a last ditch attempt to stop the defections. But we also know that they refused to grant the defectors their wishes. Many of the defectors wanted a guarantee of automatic return tickets and other petty private benefits. Those aren’t particularly difficult. The refusal of the ruling party to accede must be a reflection of its estimation of the electoral weight of the generality of the defectors, and the risk they posed to the ruling party retaining power in 2019. PDP must celebrate cautiously.

The electoral map shows that it has a narrow, winding, treacherous path to victory. It must choose its presidential candidate shrewdly. It must choose a candidate that will touch Buhari’s cache of votes in the northwest. It must choose a candidate that can woo independent voters and the international community. The PDP spent three years spreading bigotry and fanning flames of division. It must spend the next six months preaching national unity to stand a chance of winning votes in the far north. The other day its national chairman gave credence to rumours that it may chicken out of the 2019 elections to save face and save its supporters heart ache. The party must find courage and abandon extreme cynicism. If it boycotts the elections in 2019 it will become extinct.

There is nothing new the ruling party has introduced into the winning of elections in Nigeria. Nothing that the PDP is not familiar with. I actually feared that the PDP was going extinct at some point when its hopes seemed to hang on a Supreme Court verdict. It’s good it survived and has strengthened. Stiff completion would help the ruling party become more responsive. But the return of PDP’s wandering legion must be managed carefully. They left the APC because they were marginalized. They have returned with ambition and hunger for power. Some of them are going to find the PDP inhospitable too.

The biblical prodigal son got a rousing welcome that sparked envy in his brother. If the defectors usurp privileges and instigate defections out of the PDP then their return could be counter productive. Only the institution of internal democracy will banish rancor and destructive squabbles. But the sort of midnight bargains that lured the jilted reformists home would definitely offend many existing party members. The PDP can jubilate. But Uhuru is still so far away.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/the-pdp-and-the-premature-hosanna/

Take your sermons to the IDPs created by APC daily... especially in Zamfara State where 20 villages were sacked today and over a hundred people killed like rats today..... I know you're not concerned about them but I will still attach the picture of the Zamfara people fleeing in Zurmi LGA... this is today!!! PDP is NOT your problem but your own ineptitude and chronic incompetence

deji17:
The PDP and the premature hosanna

JULY 28, 2018

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo

The PDP is euphoric. But it must contain itself. Its concentration must be on the electoral map. It must formulate a concise message. No one has heard it say how it plans to curb corruption. All it does is hysterical lamentation of the poor performance of the ruling party. The PDP has been on the ropes for too long. Succor has come. PDP Defectors have poured in. Its supporters can be permitted to dance a little. They have grieved for too long. But the party must know it has an uphill task. 2019 is here.


The party cannot afford prolonged celebrations of ‘side nettings.’ I remember when the PDP welcomed Sheriff back with fanfare. They had thought he was the god that would deliver the northeast to them. Wike and Fayose later anointed him party chairman. Then the party was torn to shreds with litigation. Now they all think he was a well dressed mole. The PDP cannot be blamed for getting excited about the return of the defectors. The father of the prodigal son threw a party the day his wayward son returned. But he didn’t surrender himself to delusions. The PDP must not give its pearls to swines. It must not lapse into self congratulations.

The PDP can jubilate for a while. But it must settle down quickly and assess the real electoral value of the noisy defectors. It is true that politics is a game of numbers. But no one feels his bag with chaff and walks around like a man carrying gold. Let the party throw automatic tickets at the returnees. But let it bear in mind that many of those northern legislators came to victory in 2015 riding the Buhari hurricane. It’s good for the PDP to be optimistic. But it is better for it to be realistic. The country needs a virile opposition. But a robust opposition cannot be formed by a band of peripatetic fortune seekers with mercenary instincts roving from party to party. A firm opposition can only be founded on strong moral principles and sound policies. The PDP has relied on a perceived public disenchantment with the APC.


The opposition has not managed to craft any new message. It has not managed to re-brand and re market itself. And unfortunately, it has no pedigree that can recommend it to the public. And I guess it now knows that its history is an albatross. Perhaps that is why it feels its name is too filthy to be retained. But Nigerians don’t discard old names quickly. The election is six months away. NEPA is still NEPA, despite the fact that NEPA ceased to exist more than five years ago. Kingsway road is still Kingsway road in the mouths of Lagosians. And Douglas road has remained Douglas road in Owerri, despite recent renaming ceremonies. Let the PDP merry a little. But let it not get presumptuous. Some of those who defected had worked for the PDP while carrying brooms around, for almost three years now. They may not bring much in fresh energy. The PDP has been the de-facto majority in the Senate since Saraki ate the forbidden fruit and mounted the throne. The defections have given the PDP momentum, but the party needs a good steering wheel.


It must chart a moral and economic direction. It cannot afford to be the party that makes excuses for corruption and scowls at anti corruption agencies. We know the ruling party made a last ditch attempt to stop the defections. But we also know that they refused to grant the defectors their wishes. Many of the defectors wanted a guarantee of automatic return tickets and other petty private benefits. Those aren’t particularly difficult. The refusal of the ruling party to accede must be a reflection of its estimation of the electoral weight of the generality of the defectors, and the risk they posed to the ruling party retaining power in 2019. PDP must celebrate cautiously.

The electoral map shows that it has a narrow, winding, treacherous path to victory. It must choose its presidential candidate shrewdly. It must choose a candidate that will touch Buhari’s cache of votes in the northwest. It must choose a candidate that can woo independent voters and the international community. The PDP spent three years spreading bigotry and fanning flames of division. It must spend the next six months preaching national unity to stand a chance of winning votes in the far north. The other day its national chairman gave credence to rumours that it may chicken out of the 2019 elections to save face and save its supporters heart ache. The party must find courage and abandon extreme cynicism. If it boycotts the elections in 2019 it will become extinct.

There is nothing new the ruling party has introduced into the winning of elections in Nigeria. Nothing that the PDP is not familiar with. I actually feared that the PDP was going extinct at some point when its hopes seemed to hang on a Supreme Court verdict. It’s good it survived and has strengthened. Stiff completion would help the ruling party become more responsive. But the return of PDP’s wandering legion must be managed carefully. They left the APC because they were marginalized. They have returned with ambition and hunger for power. Some of them are going to find the PDP inhospitable too.

The biblical prodigal son got a rousing welcome that sparked envy in his brother. If the defectors usurp privileges and instigate defections out of the PDP then their return could be counter productive. Only the institution of internal democracy will banish rancor and destructive squabbles. But the sort of midnight bargains that lured the jilted reformists home would definitely offend many existing party members. The PDP can jubilate. But Uhuru is still so far away.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/the-pdp-and-the-premature-hosanna/

Is there still a government in Nigeria? More pictures of Zamfara people fleeing... this is today!!

Undertaker, how come it is only news of death that excites you? Do you think your PDP has a chance in 2019 ?

Wailing zombies wait till 2019 before you wail forever.

True talk : the PDP must celebrate caution .

PDP don't need to rebrand itself to defeat APC. APC has inflicted enough harm on itself by itself

I don't know the magic PDP want to use to come back again because the power of incumbency is not there, the rigging machine, their candidate are northerners, they can't allowed them to buy vote,
So what magic will they use.

Kewtt:
Is there still a government in Nigeria? More pictures of Zamfara people fleeing... this is today!!

who is pursuing them?
Is it buhari?

That is how the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra use to enter trouble.

Sai Buhari!

buhariguy:
I don't know the magic PDP want to use to come back again because the power of incumbency is not there, the rigging machine, their candidate are northerners, they can't allowed them to buy vote,
So what magic will they use.

They know it is mission impossible.

Any HOSANNA is a welcomed relief to the APC ONGOING-LUNACY!
Did we ever imagine PDP will sing any HOSANNA at all with ONLY 3.5 years of APC SHYTE?

Even if na APGA HOSANNA!!!!

There is just one question I want to ask those clamoring for the return of PDP.

We know in 2015 APC brought a change manifesto and this period during run up to the last election the atmosphere is different.


What exactly is PDP manifesto ?
Why should we vote PDP?

Someone should give me a good reason please

Iblad0994:
There is just one question I want to ask those clamoring for the return of PDP.

We know in 2015 APC brought a change manifesto and this period during run up to the last election the atmosphere is different.


What exactly is PDP manifesto ?
Why should we vote PDP?

Someone should give me a good reason please

Loot and loot more....What is bad in that manifesto?

Very articulate write up.

deji17:
Undertaker, how come it is only news of death that excites you? Do you think your PDP has a chance in 2019 ?

Na real undertaker

Very insightful write up but since buhari fulani juju is very strong, their juvenile delinquents on this board won't pay heed. It's Nigeria's loss really because we are stuck with an Hobson's choice

I completely agree with you bro. Real juvenile deliquents all over the place . Right from their principals like Fayose, Dino, Ekwere forgery, Wike, down to their online urchins in Nairaland and other Social media platforms.

PDP performance at recenly conducted state Governorship elections in Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Ondo and now Ekiti state, is a clear pointer to the fact that Nigerians have totally rejected PDP and all that the party stands for. PDP knows that they stand no chance in 2019, but they just have to put up a show.

Shukuakukobambi:
Na real undertaker

Very insightful write up but since buhari fulani juju is very strong, their juvenile delinquents on this board won't pay heed. It's Nigeria's loss really because we are stuck with an Hobson's choice

I completely agree with you bro. Real juvenile deliquents all over the place . Right from their principals like Fayose, Dino, Ekwere forgery, Wike, down to their online urchins in Nairaland and other Social media platforms.

PDP performance at recenly conducted state Governorship elections in Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Ondo and now Ekiti state, is a clear pointer to the fact that Nigerians have totally rejected PDP and all that the party stands for. PDP knows that they stand no chance in 2019, but they just have to put up a show.

deji17:
Undertaker, how come it is only news of death that excites you? Do you think your PDP has a chance in 2019 ?

You must be a Yoruba Muslim
Deji

Sharpshooota:
You must be a Yoruba Muslim
Deji

If you are Yoruba, you will understand that there is nothing like a Yoruba muslim. Your world view is different from ours. Iwotago?

deji17:
If you are Yoruba, you will understand that there is nothing like a Yoruba muslim. Your world view is different from ours. Iwotago?

If you were a real Yoruba... You wouldn't be asss licking a Fulani terrorist ...

Sharpshooota:
If you were a real Yoruba... You wouldn't be asss licking a Fulani terrorist ...

You know licking Fulani anus is not strange to you eboes. Right from Azikiwe, to Ekwueme, Chinua Achebe, Ojukwu and now Ekweremadu.

You've always licked Yoruba, Fulani, Ijaw etc as.s.
It is no surprise that you think because someone is a President, others must be licking the as.s of his tribe.
Did you lick OBJ as.s or not?

.

deji17:
You know licking Fulani anus is not strange to you eboes. Right from Azikiwe, to Ekwueme, Chinua Achebe, Ojukwu and now Ekweremadu.

You've always licked Yoruba, Fulani, Ijaw etc as.s.
It is no surprise that you think because someone is a President, others must be licking the as.s of his tribe.
Did you lick OBJ as.s or not?

You must be an illiterate too
Continue with the asss licking of the Fulani terrorist...

Sharpshooota:
You must be an illiterate too
Continue with the asss licking of the Fulani terrorist...

Illiterate calling someone an illiterate..Your reverse psychology fell flat on its face.

deji17:
Illiterate calling someone an illiterate..Your reverse psychology fell flat on its face.

Continue my Yoruba Muslim friend

Sharpshooota:
Continue my Yoruba Muslim friend

You have zero ability to assimilate. For the umpteenth time, there is nothing called Yoruba Muslim in the real sense of the word. It is a creation by the eboes, but has no meaning to the average Yoruba.

Sharpshooota:
If you were a real Yoruba... You wouldn't be asss licking a Fulani terrorist ...

What do you call your fawning over Atiku/kwankwaso/tambuwal/lamido/turaki etc? cocksucking?

deji17:
You know licking Fulani anus is not strange to you eboes. Right from Azikiwe, to Ekwueme, Chinua Achebe, Ojukwu and now Ekweremadu.

You've always licked Yoruba, Fulani, Ijaw etc as.s.
It is no surprise that you think because someone is a President, others must be licking the as.s of his tribe.
Did you lick OBJ as.s or not?

Of course he did. For 8 years he was sucking and licking OBJ's a$$

Then he a$$lick ijaw for another 5 years. The next he'll a$$lick akwaibom when Akpabio gets his own chance

deji17:
I completely agree with you bro. Real juvenile deliquents all over the place . Right from their principals like Fayose, Dino, Ekwere forgery, Wike, down to their online urchins in Nairaland and other Social media platforms.

PDP performance at recenly conducted state Governorship elections in Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Ondo and now Ekiti state, is a clear pointer to the fact that Nigerians have totally rejected PDP and all that the party stands for. PDP knows that they stand no chance in 2019, but they just have to put up a show.

I really thought they'd be able to pose a real opposition to put buhari and his people on their toes but alas, it's the same mumuishly concocted conspiracy theories they keep filling cyber space with. a$$lick this, a$$lick that. as if PDP itself hasn't zoned it's own presidential candidate to the same North.

You accuse me of voting North in 2015 while you're holding the poster of another northerner as your candidate for 2019 and you believe you're doing campaign? How foolish can people be?

Shukuakukobambi:
What do you call your fawning over Atiku/kwankwaso/tambuwal/lamido/turaki etc? cocksucking?

You know Buhari has nothing to offer
Stop pretending... It's lame