{"id":30631,"date":"2014-08-28T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30631"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:22:43","slug":"random-thoughts-mallam-ribadus-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/random-thoughts-mallam-ribadus-defection\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF….. Random thoughts on Mallam Ribadu’s Defection."},"content":{"rendered":"
Many political observers have\u00a0observed with keen interest,politicians as they ply their trade.
\nWe have watched politicians make loud promises,promises the masses believed and hoped for,but as days go by,have seen those promises fade into thin air.
\nWe have seen politicians commission completed(?) projects;and have watched with dismay,their successors come\u00a0to tell the public that the commissioned(?)project was never built in the first t place,that the whole project and its commission was a fraud.
\nWe have seen politicians\u00a0award contracts\u00a0to local and foreign contractors and paid huge mobilization fees and later paid the contractors in full only to accuse the contractors of abandoning the projects uncompleted.One begins to wonder whose responsibility it is to inspect and pay;the contractor or the government?
\nWe do still observe as the same game is played in the judiciary.
\nWe have watched\u00a0with amazement the EFCC and other law enforcement agents report a crime and the judge strikes off the case for lack of credible evidence or other ridiculous reasons.
\nThe masses have witnessed these and so many\u00a0more,so\u00a0much that negligence of duty,lies,deception\u00a0and lack of patriotism better defines our politics and have found its way into the thinking of the youth as the surest way to success and\u00a0part of our popular culture.
\nAnd now comes defection.With ease Nigerian politicians drop the manifesto of the party under which they made their promises and got elected\u00a0by the masses.They drop the manifesto and the party to defect to another party and pick up a different manifesto which the majority of the masses never voted for
\nHe does this without considering the wish of the people who voted him into power.
\nHe gets selfish and goes for selfish gains.The judiciary is still struggling with the constitution to determine wether defectors should lose their offices or not.
\nThe judiciary is yet to give a proper verdict on this and when it is given,the masses are yet to see it implemented.
\nRecently Mallam Nuhu Ribadu defected from APC to PDP.
\nIn all his days in APC the good Mallam\u00a0has disdainfully attacked everything PDP and every political decision that has the approval of the president Dr.Goodluck Jonathan.He has used every means to express his contempt and dislikes even when the ex- Adamawa state governor got himself into a mess and was being impeached.
\nAt Nyako’s impeachment,Adamawa state is back under the control of PDP and the chances of APC winning the state in the coming gubernatorial election is almost impossible.
\nWhat if the APC knows very well it cannot win the governorship of Adamawa state considering the interest of Gen. Marwa and the behemoth-influence of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur?
\nWhat if the APC has weighed the chances of winning the presidential elections if it loses Adamawa to PDP?
\nWhat if the APC have considered these huge odds and came up with a master plan,a plan B,a plan to outsmart the PDP and still come out on top in Adamawa no matter which direction the cat decides to jump,left or right?
\nWhat if the APC believes Mallam Ribadu could be placed at high value by the PDP and that PDP,with a desire to weaken APC would offer whatever it takes to lure Ribadu into\u00a0its fold and consider his defection a high prize.
\nWhat if Mallam Ribadu\u00a0is asked to feign in-satisfaction with his party,the APC and whisper such to his close friends in PDP knowing that those close friends will go back to whisper this big piece of information into the right ears in PDP;and APC spies in PDP will keep on pushing for the purchase of\u00a0Mallam Ribadu at any cost.
\nWhat if APC placed\u00a0that price to be the control of Adamawa State and has instructed our good Mallam to demand from PDP a waiver and PDP’s candidature in the forthcoming election as the only condition for his defection,strategizing that if PDP falls into the trap,a free and fair election will be held in Adamawa. If APC’s candidate wins,good.If Mallam Ribadu under the banner of PDP wins,so much the better,before Mr.president could finish signing his congratulatory message,the good disciple has gone back to his true party,the APC where a bottle of champagne will be popped and toast to success.
\nWishing him luck with Goodluck might turn out to be the truest wish of all times.
\nWell,so much for military and espionage strategies.I bow with deep humility to some of the nation’s Generals.Old wines in new wine skins.In statecraft no end to scheming.
\nEvery loyalty deserve proof.As proof of Mallam Ribadu’s loyalty to his new party will he agree to a test? I’m not at liberty to suggest that he should forgo his gubernatorial ambitions as proof.
\nWill he agree to an equal playing terms with other aspirants\u00c2\u00a0or better still will he accept the fact that it will be most unfair to anoint him PDP’s candidate,after other aspirants\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0like Gen.Marwa and the current acting governor and so many others have shown much loyalty to the party while he was casting stones from APC.
\nIn spirit of justice and fairness,will he prove his loyalty first by working to help his party PDP win the 2015 presidential elections at least in his home state even if the party does not let him carry its banner in the current Adamawa gubernatorial election,if his loyalty then is proved,he can be rewarded;than seeking reward before effort and desiring to\u00a0reap where he did not sow?
\nOr will he go back to the APC if he fails to clinch the ticket?
\nOnly time will tell.<\/p>\n

Bill Lovedays\u00c2
\nblovedays@gmail.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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