Date Published: 03/05/10

Sir,

The PDP and its bad sore (Ogbulafor)

Corruption is not only when you steal government money. When you are in position to work on truth and call white black then you are a corrupt person. When you cause confusion in places where you are supposed to create understanding, you are a corrupt person. Even as a politician, if prostitute from one political party to another all just for where it would serve your personal needs better, you are corrupt. It is said “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Prince Vincent Ogbulafor was once an ANPP stalwart and even contested Abia State governorship on the platform. He moved over to PDP, became its General Secretary. Now he is its national Chairman whose words must always be respected. But his bad contributions to the happenings in most State chapters of PDP show that he has not done well; one can count – Plateau, Zamfara, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Ogun, Oyo, Edo, and recently Anambra, etc  are very visible. To crown this, the part he played on a serious national issue that would have brought in the military thereby truncating our nascent democracy, stands condemned. Ogbulafor’s actions are not only anti-PDP but also anti-masses.

He recently went to the press to accuse the acting President of not consulting with the PDP before making a minor cabinet swap? Who is the head of the PDP – the acting President or the national Chairman of PDP? Ogbulafor also jetted out the country to Saudi-Arabia for an unfulfilled mission of seeing the ailing President Yar’Adua and from there, according to media report, to India for his own medical (eye) checks, without consulting the acting President who is now the head of his party.

PDP Integrity Forum (PIF) in recent advertisement complained about Ogbulafor’s weak leadership as the bane of the PDP. And why Nigeria should continue to be ruled by a bad party headed by a wrong person is what beats many bookmakers. Yet the PDP finds it difficult to do away with ‘one man’ that has been an albatross.

Fatima Jibril ( fatimajibril90@yahoo.com )

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