Date Published: 10/01/09

Sir,

The ranting at the PDP NEC meeting

Considering what transpired at the just-concluded PDP NEC meeting at Abuja, I envision what would be the fate of PDP come 2011. President Yar’Adua was absent due his travel to Saudi Arabia as Special Guest of Honour at the inauguration of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He preferred that to the United Nations summit where he would have served his nation best,

One read that the serving governors expectedly rallied round the Party’s national chairman, Prince Ogbulafor, to retain his seat.  Who actually told them that Ogbulafor could have been removed by the ordinary NEC meeting that warranted the panicky vote of confidence? To start with, the governors must be joking or must have been uneducated not to know that Ogbulafor ouster would be done at the mid-term convention early 2010 and not the ordinary PDP NEC meeting that just concluded.

Another aspect was the stupid point raised by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu where he tried to move that any member of the party that tries to correct any sitting governor through the media must be sanctioned.  Iwuanyanwu, I believe must have a personal or business problem that made him play the good-boy for governors’ patronages. The joker felt disappointed when no motion could be moved for the idea he touted. By so trying to suggest, it shows that people like him do not believe in democratic norms which in any case are not deep-rooted in the PDP.

I also read front page of The Nation newspaper of 27/09/09 where Anenih, Iwuanyanwu and a Minister were reported to have been mandated to lead the re-election gang for President Yar’Adua. I am sure Anenih would not like to be dragged into such because he does not look ‘sick’ person; he would better let others who are, do such a job.

PDP needs to retain the presidency. Reading the back page of Leadership newspaper 28/09/09 an article by its publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah, titled “What a President!” I strengthened my belief that Nigeria under Yar’Adua leadership has lost her position in the comity of nations.

Mr. Yinka Aderemi, Fasheun Close, Molete, Ibadan