{"id":62564,"date":"2018-06-11T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62564"},"modified":"2018-06-11T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:49:09","slug":"saraki-and-the-npdptime-to-call-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/saraki-and-the-npdptime-to-call-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Saraki and the nPDP:Time to Call it Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jude Ndukwe<\/div>\n
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In recent times, members of the NewPeoples Democratic Party, nPDP, bloc in<\/div>\n
the ruling All Progressives Congress,APC, have been agitating over what<\/div>\n
they consider a gross shortchange andmaltreatment of members of their bloc<\/div>\n
in the power equation in APC.<\/div>\n
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As one of the legacy parties thatformed the APC in 2014, the nPDP is<\/div>\n
supposed to control a major stake in APC asthey boast of arguably the<\/div>\n
cream of political giants in the current rulingparty and that is apart<\/div>\n
from their number considering that they pulled asizeable membership from<\/div>\n
the PDP to APC.<\/div>\n
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Ordinarily, in normal politicalsettings, that should have been an<\/div>\n
advantage to them. It should have given themthe leverage to negotiate<\/div>\n
their ways into relevance. But we are in abnormaltimes when raw strength<\/div>\n
overpowers number and when strong men ride roughshodover institutions. In<\/div>\n
such times, negotiations are unwelcome and accommodationof divergent<\/div>\n
interests is alien.<\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, members of the nPDPwere coming from a system where balance<\/div>\n
of power was key and consideration forall interests was on the front<\/div>\n
burner of statements and actions of both partyand government. It is too<\/div>\n
strange to the Kawu Baraje-led nPDP that they havefound themselves in a<\/div>\n
party and government that treats its own as trash andcares less about the<\/div>\n
delicate issues of power balance among its members in away as to reflect<\/div>\n
fairness.<\/div>\n
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Although some might argue thatthe nPDP members are holding important<\/div>\n
appointive and elective positions likethe Senate President, Speaker of the<\/div>\n
House of Representatives, governorshippositions, key ministerial<\/div>\n
appointments etc, the truth of the matter is that amajority of the office<\/div>\n
holders would rather have not held such positions thanbe as troubled as<\/div>\n
they are today.<\/div>\n
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While other more organizedpolitical parties and a more sensitive federal<\/div>\n
government would be happy tokeep these positions, the APC has been acting<\/div>\n
as if these positions are held byopposition members. They have become the<\/div>\n
most virulent opposition to themselvesand unleashed all manner of<\/div>\n
political cudgels on their own even before thisadministration effectively<\/div>\n
took off. The APC seems to be the only politicalparty where the ruling<\/div>\n
party is also the most vicious opposition party.<\/div>\n
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While the CPC bloc which wasPresident Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s bloc has carried<\/div>\n
on like the Alpha and Omega ofnot only APC but also Nigeria, they act like<\/div>\n
a like a people whose words arelaw and who must not be questioned. Most of<\/div>\n
the hard-line approach andstrategies of this government are products of<\/div>\n
the CPC bloc of APC. As it is,the ANPP bloc has been swallowed and they<\/div>\n
have almost become extinct both inname and in character.<\/div>\n
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The ACN bloc which was led by theformer governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju<\/div>\n
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has also been cut tosize to the extent that no sooner<\/div>\n
than the president appointed Tinubu to head areconciliatory committee of<\/div>\n
the party to bring everyone back on board and samepage than the crises in<\/div>\n
the party assumed hydra-headed dimensions to the pointwhere different<\/div>\n
interests today can no longer be effectively reconciled.<\/div>\n
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Simply put, APC is a party wherethings have indeed fallen apart!<\/div>\n
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Today, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, theimmediate past governor of Kano State<\/div>\n
cannot as much even try to visit hisState because the incumbent governor,<\/div>\n
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has decreed so.This has lingered for so long; yet,<\/div>\n
neither the president nor the party couldwade in to this anomaly and bring<\/div>\n
it to a halt. Today, Kwankwaso is on exilefrom a State he was governor for<\/div>\n
8 years and only handed over 3 years ago.Kwankwaso delivered the Kano<\/div>\n
which became pivotal in deciding who won the 2015 presidentialelection.<\/div>\n
But today, he cannot even visit that same State.<\/div>\n
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Dino Melaye, the flamboyant,boisterous and outspoken Senator from Kogi<\/div>\n
West, has had his own more than fairshare of troubles written, initiated<\/div>\n
and executed with ruthlessness by agentsof the APC-controlled federal<\/div>\n
government. It is the general belief that Dino\u2019stroubles started when he<\/div>\n
supported the emergence of Bukola Saraki as presidentof the Senate against<\/div>\n
the wishes of some cabal in the presidency and the party.<\/div>\n
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In addition to that, Dino hasbeen at loggerheads with Yahaya Bello, the<\/div>\n
governor of Kogi, his home State.His contributions on the floor of the<\/div>\n
Senate which come across as beinganti-establishment but seen by neutrals<\/div>\n
and a majority of the people asexceptional boldness to speak against the<\/div>\n
anomalies of government even if suchills are caused by his party, and at<\/div>\n
the risk of an easily predictable witchhunt.<\/div>\n
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The story of Dino\u2019s travails iswell known to everyone.<\/div>\n
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Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi has hadhis properties demolished in what many<\/div>\n
believed to be a politically motivatedaction by the governor of Kaduna<\/div>\n
State. Senator Shehu Sani is being hounded formurder. Senator Isah Misau<\/div>\n
is being harassed and intimidated. Rotimi Amaechi\u2019swings are being<\/div>\n
curtailed. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State is sodisenchanted with<\/div>\n
how things have turned out in APC that his eventual defectionback to PDP<\/div>\n
is believed to be just a matter of time.<\/div>\n
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has sincereturned \u201chome\u201d after seeing, according to<\/div>\n
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, that theAPC is a \u201cparty of lies and<\/div>\n
propaganda\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Matters got to a head and leadersof the nPDP bloc in APC had to write a<\/div>\n
letter to the president and leadershipof the party reeling out a retinue<\/div>\n
of grievances that must be addressed if theymust continue to remain in<\/div>\n
APC. Although the vice president has been detailed tomeet with the nPDP<\/div>\n
leaders on the issues they raised, political observers saythat rather than<\/div>\n
delegate this assignment to the vice president, the presidenthimself ought<\/div>\n
to have taken the matter more seriously by meeting with the nPDPmembers.<\/div>\n
This action of delegating that important assignment to the vicepresident<\/div>\n
considering the calibre of people that make up the nPDP means thepresident<\/div>\n
is carrying on as if the nPDP do not matter in the equation ofthings. And,<\/div>\n
of course, the APC has loudly demonstrated this over time.<\/div>\n
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The question most people areasking is, how long will the nPDP continue to<\/div>\n
endure unending humiliation oftheir members in a party that would never<\/div>\n
have come to power but for theirintervention? President Buhari had earlier<\/div>\n
contested the presidential electionthree times and failed three times<\/div>\n
until a coalition that saw other majorparties including the ACN, ANPP and<\/div>\n
the nPDP come together in a formidable showof strength that ousted the<\/div>\n
gargantuan PDP who also made the mistake, althoughon a lesser scale, which<\/div>\n
the APC is making today, by taking critical leadersfor granted and<\/div>\n
allowing them to leave \u201cfor free\u201d.<\/div>\n
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With these persistingpersecutions which nPDP members are facing in the<\/div>\n
hands of the government theycontributed immensely to put in place, isn\u2019t<\/div>\n
it high time they fought back? Theearlier they do that the better for not<\/div>\n
only their political careers but alsotheir constituents.<\/div>\n
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There are several legislativeinstruments which the Senate and the House of<\/div>\n
Representatives can deploy tofight the executive and drive them back to<\/div>\n
their own half of the field. Thetruth is, in politics, you cannot wield<\/div>\n
the enormous power which thelegislature has and still be this docile or<\/div>\n
allow the institution to be thisridiculed by agencies of government<\/div>\n
continually. If you do, then you get badlybruised if not totally<\/div>\n
obliterated. It is always better to stand fighting thanto kneel succumbing<\/div>\n
even without throwing a punch.<\/div>\n
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Saraki though has been draggedfrom pillar to post by the executive for<\/div>\n
what many think is because he defiedit to become senate president, he has<\/div>\n
nonetheless taken the persecution thrownhis way with political equanimity.<\/div>\n
He has been the restraining force behind aSenate that would have loved to<\/div>\n
bite more than it barks; a stabilizing factorin the management of the<\/div>\n
delicate balance of power between the executive andthe legislature. Yet,<\/div>\n
he is a man marked for the guillotine even if that meansridiculing the<\/div>\n
institution of the Senate, emasculating it and bring it down toits knees.<\/div>\n
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Apart from this, members of thenPDP should show their strength by leaving<\/div>\n
the APC with their members and joinforces with other parties to contest<\/div>\n
the presidency against Buhari next year.It is very clear that APC has not<\/div>\n
only failed them but has also failedNigerians since they left the PDP for<\/div>\n
the APC with the socio-economicdevelopment of Nigeria in mind.<\/div>\n
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At this stage, there seems to beno redemption for the APC. It is obvious<\/div>\n
that it is a party of strong men andweakened institutions. Fortunately,<\/div>\n
despite the continued intimidation ofNigerians including the judiciary,<\/div>\n
the so called strong men are daily beingdemystified and mocked by<\/div>\n
Nigerians for their inability to pursuesocio-economic development of the<\/div>\n
country with the same energy and enthusiasmthey pursue perceived political<\/div>\n
opponents.<\/div>\n
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It is time for Saraki and co topull the rug off the feet of APC and cause<\/div>\n
the final cataclysmic implosion of aparty that seemed to have been formed<\/div>\n
to fail from inception. With theshambolic congresses recently organized by<\/div>\n
the party leading to bloodshed inseveral parts of the country, the<\/div>\n
continued killing and sacking of villages byherdsmen without resistance<\/div>\n
from government, rising rate of kidnapping andother violent crimes, it is<\/div>\n
obvious that the APC does not deserve the cream ofleaders in the mould of<\/div>\n
the nPDP and there is no way the party would win nextyear\u2019s election no<\/div>\n
matter their antics if the nPDP members leave.<\/div>\n
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The truth is, if APC returns topower, things would only get worse as it is<\/div>\n
generally believed that they haveshown a lack of knowledge and capacity to<\/div>\n
run a country like Nigeria with allits complexities. A party that behaves<\/div>\n
the way it is behaving now when it is inneed of a second tenure ticket<\/div>\n
would behave worse if they return to power. Forthe sake of Nigerians who<\/div>\n
cannot afford another round of intimidation,harassment, selective<\/div>\n
obedience of court orders depending on the ones thatfavour them, assault<\/div>\n
on the legislature and the judiciary, loss of jobs intheir millions,<\/div>\n
insecurity and other national malaise bedeviling the nation, itis a duty<\/div>\n
to God and service to man for members of the nPDP to call it quitsand pull<\/div>\n
out of APC now!<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0—jrndukwe@yahoo.co.uk<\/a>;Twitter: @stjudendukwe; 08023140065<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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