{"id":31434,"date":"2014-09-22T17:02:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31434"},"modified":"2014-09-22T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:02:51","slug":"pdp-state-states-publicity-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/pdp-state-states-publicity-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP and its &#8220;state of the states&#8221; publicity tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Sufuyan Ojeifo<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Metuh, announced on Sunday plans by the Party to immediately undertake a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">nationwide tour to enable a team from the Publicity Directorate of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Party visit all projects executed by the Governments of the Party at the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Federal, State and Local levels since 1999.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He rationalized the tour at a press conference in Abuja during which he<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">harped on the imperativeness of adequately publicizing to the entire world<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">key achievements that the PDP Government has recorded in its 15 years of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">being in the saddled.\u00a0 Since the ultimate objective of the tour is to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">showcase the achievements of the PDP Government, the enterprise should be<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">seen as a welcome development by party members who are concerned about the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">under-reporting of the Party, its Government and achievements.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Against the backdrop of the popular axiom that \u201cif one does not blow ones<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">trumpet, nobody will do it for one,\u201d the PDP Publicity Directorate Tour,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which has already begun, as of the time of penning this article, should<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">have taken place long before now.\u00a0 But like it is said, \u201cit is better late<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">than never.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For those who may not quite understand the shape of the tour and how it is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">different from the Good Governance Tour embarked upon by a team led by the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, in earlier part of this<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">administration, the PDP Publicist said: \u201cWhile the Good Governance Tour<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">focused on the projects executed by the Federal Government under the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">current dispensation, the PDP Publicity Tour focuses on all projects<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">executed by PDP elected or appointed officials at the federal, state,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">local government and ward levels since 1999.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This, no doubt, is an ambitious enterprise.\u00a0 It is a huge task in which<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Publicity Directorate Tour Team must invest quality time and sharp<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">focus.\u00a0 It must muster the capacity to articulate, in lucid language and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">strategies through the various media, what the concrete achievements are,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">what the development situation is in the different sectors and States and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">what the situation was before the PDP Government stepped in the saddle.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ability of the Team to paint a composite representation of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">governance and development narratives across the state as well as situate<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the role and\/or involvement of the PDP Government in the bigger<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">development and transformation picture will define the success and\/or<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">otherwise of the Tour and\/or the assessments derivable from it.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the nation approaches another general election in 2015, the recurring<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">question has always been: what has the PDP Government achieved?\u00a0 Some even<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">introduce an element of mischief into it, aimed at eroding the political<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">footing of the PDP, by asking what the Party has done since 1999 to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">deserve being in power beyond May 29, 2015.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They seem to give the impression that, beyond Metuh\u2019s celebratory<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">declaration that the PDP has, for 15 years, continued to be the custodian<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of the sacred mandate freely given by Nigerians, there are no ample<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">democracy dividends to match the number of years and the huge amount of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">money that had been spent, through budgetary allocations, for capital<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">development.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But Metuh, at the press conference, dismissed their claims, describing<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">them as flawed.\u00a0 He said that in 15 years, the PDP Government has<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cstrictly and vigorous applied itself to delivering on the mandate of not<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">only establishing a free and democratic society in which the powers and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">actions of government are lawful; but also creating a dynamic economy<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">where the welfare and prosperity of the people are guaranteed through<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sound policies and rapid infrastructure development in all the sectors of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the economy.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said the opposition parties had always played politics with the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">performance of the ruling PDP.\u00a0 Read him: \u201cHowever, while millions of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerians continue to enjoy the evident benefits of having the PDP in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">power, and demonstrating their satisfaction through their votes in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">successive elections, the opposition has mounted a negative campaign,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">asking what the PDP has done in the last 15 years.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The PDP Publicity Directorate Tour, according to Metuh, is a unique way of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">responding to the shenanigans of the opposition parties.\u00a0 According to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">him, \u201cIn the next couple of months, the Publicity Directorate will embark<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">on a comprehensive nationwide PDP Performance Tour to visit and publicize<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">all projects executed by all PDP elected and appointed officials at the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">federal, state and local government levels in all sectors of the economy<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">since 1999, including constituency projects and interventions using<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">special bodies such as NDDC, PTDF, SURE-P, etc.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rationale for this expansive scope of focus seems unassailable within<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the context of this claim: \u201cindeed, there is no state, local government or<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ward in Nigeria that has not been positively affected by projects executed<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by PDP governments at federal, state and local government levels.\u00a0 Such<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">projects abound in non-PDP states and many Nigerians erroneously give<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">credit to the opposition, which they eagerly accept.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It will certainly excite members of the PDP who have been worried about<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the negative profiling of their Party by the opposition over the years to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">know what the PDP Publicity Directorate Tour Team intends to \u201crecover\u201d the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">projects executed by the PDP Government and return the credit to the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Party.\u00a0 Interestingly, attention is being paid to such states as Edo,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rivers, Nasarawa, Kano, Kwara and Sokoto, among others, where opposition<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">parties controlling the mechanics of government are now laying claims to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the projects executed by PDP Government.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Tour Team will stretch itself to the limits by also keeping a tab on<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">constituency projects by federal and state lawmakers, which were mobilized<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by the PDP-led Federal Government.\u00a0 Overall, the tour is expected to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">entail a comprehensive sector-by-sector appraisal of the performance of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the PDP Government in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria and the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">successes recorded in transforming the lives of citizens in the last 15<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">years of democracy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perhaps, what will be missing during the period of the tour are the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">brickbats that have for a long time characterized relationship between the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PDP and the opposition.\u00a0 The PDP Publicity Directorate, as understood,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">would no longer focus on replying to the opposition diatribes and,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">perhaps, propaganda.\u00a0 How then does the PDP intend to rebut possible<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">falsehood against it by the opposition?\u00a0 \u201cOur answer to such is that we<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">meet at the polls,\u201d Metuh said.\u00a0 Well, it is difficult to place a bet on<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Metuh\u2019s words as far responding to the opposition is concerned.\u00a0 What is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">likely to happen is that he may find it necessarily at some point to put<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the lie to the opposition\u2019s claims.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Indeed, Nigerians, especially the opposition elements, are keeping their<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fingers crossed as the PDP Tour Team embarks on the enterprise to, in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Metuh\u2019s words, \u201ccatalogue our collective successes under the PDP-led<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">administration.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the PDP Tour Team begins to celebrate the key achievements of the PDP<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Government nationwide, in spite of very serious security challenges facing<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Jonathan administration, especially the insurgency in the north, a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">veritable platform to sell (not necessarily to campaign for 2015 election)<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the ruling Party on the basis of its achievements in the last 15 years<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">would have been created.\u00a0 How does this enterprise serve the electoral<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">interest of the ruling Party as against the opposition parties\u2019 interest?\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only time will tell.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ojeifo, journalist\/publisher, wrote from Abuja.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sufuyan OjeifoNational Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), OlisaMetuh, announced on Sunday plans by the Party to immediately 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