Date Published: 07/23/09

PDP and fear of loosing some States

Now that the 2011 elections are fast approaching, the PDP has woken up from its slumber. Towards this end, it has set up a 15-man Committee of Elders headed by Senator Ike Nwachukwu to sort out misunderstandings existing in some of its State chapters.

Front page This Day July 19, 2009 reported that the PDP’s Board of Trustees had identified the troubled States as Oyo, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Ogun, Enugu, Kebbi and Nasarawa. It fears loosing those States. The PDP is right and God being with it, would be able to salvage most of those States or surely lose them.  On the inauguration of the 15-man Elders Committee, the first to alert them was the former FCT Minister of State, Senator James Akpan-Udoedeghe who was before the ministerial appointment, the Head of Governor Akpabio’s Campaign Organisation. He warned that PDP in Akwa Ibom is drifting alarmingly and might lose the State if not properly checked. 

It is a fact that no (one) person is above a party. Therefore, any party that is serious would ensure that it consolidates its hold on where it controls. The electorate voted for Parties and not the individuals; refer to the case of Omehia versus Amaechi of Rivers State. “Even where a party was solely financed by an individual; once such a person played god in a way that the party lost grip of the particular State, he was sidelined and ignored, let alone where most of the present governors were no money bags before now”, a chieftain of PDP commented and assured. 

Nnamdi Okafor

Omoba Road

ABA, Abia State.

okafor.nnamdi@yahoo.com