If you would ask me, I would say People's Democratic Party's "hegemony" in the last fifteen (15) years has been sort of nightmarish. Really, one hellacious and harrowingly traumatic experience. Like a monster which has continually and villainously traduced people's trust, we hardly can praise-sing its leadership on any obvious monumental achievement, particularly when one juxtaposes the resources at its disposal with its deliverables to the societal downtrodden, and by extension the entire populace. Only in its 2 years and 3 months of partial removal of the pseudo fuel subsidy, the total money "saved" as at March 28 stood at $5.870billion which represented an approximated N939.3billion. What has this transpired to in the lives of the Nigerian masses is still a mirage. And when all hope seemed forlorn (for a possible freedom from the clutch of the hawkish PDP) came the geniture of a new hope, the emergence of All Progressive Congress (APC) with so much said to provide the much needed succour. But barely one year after its berthing, all seems not well and the house is fast crumbling!
The near-fisticuffs reported between two foremost leaders of the main opposition party on Friday at a NEC meeting in Abuja, former Lagos and Borno state honchoes, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alli Modu Sheriff is really a bad omen that if not quickly nipped in the bud, the aftermath might result in perpetual slavery of the masses in the hands of the bigger kleptocrats (PDP) because all of us are thieves anyway. Like seriously, the leadership of the APC has a lot to do if they are really serious with wrestling power from these hawks. It is no doubt that a friction of this nature cannot be avoided, especially when individuals with different and divergent ideologies are put together as one 'indivisible' family. Hell, nope! You can't wish away occasional differences, but the ability of the leadership to quickly rise up to the occasion will forestall rancorous divisions within the polity. Before now, issues like the current happening were envisaged by the political literati and these clerisy had fore-warned a crack were care not meticulously taken, and it's so pitiable that it's happening now.
More worrisome is the way the leadership of the party has hitherto handled the issue of the extant stakeholders before the infusion of the rebelled PDP G-5. And this is the major drawback for the party if truth be told. Handing over the party structures to the incumbent state governors of the 5 defected PDP helmsmen has a far-reaching effect on the party. First, it makes a fool of the extant stakeholders in such states, and secondly, portends a more dangerous quagmires should they go back to their former party. It is understandable what the fears might be, the possibility of the party's victory in elections but then the individuals can as well work out modalities on a win-win mechanism. But as it is now, there are more dangers ahead should this problem be allowed to linger on. Already political heavyweights in some of the affected states are already bowing out. And these are juggernauts with financial muscles and strength to project the party positively.
In Kogi state, the power tussle is between former governor, Audu and a one-time PDP guber aspirant, Isa (a.k.a Ochocho). In Benue state, the man who fought incumbent Senate President, David Mark to a standstill even though the election was eventually rigged for the latter seems to have been pushed aside. And in Kwara state, Dele Belgore who contested against incumbent Ahmed under the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 was frustrated out of the party and he had to pitch his tent with the same PDP. Only recently, a big wig in Adamawa had to leave the party and in Nasarawa, the Deputy Governor was lost to PDP only three weeks ago, while former military administrator of Lagos and a guber aspirant under ACN in 2011, Col. Buba Marwa (Rtd) over the weekend left for PDP. Am sure if Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) has not had wide acceptance by the hoi polloi, by now we should be talking about his being shoved aside for former vice-president Atiku Abubakar's candidacy. In all of these rabble rousing, I think the larger interest of the society (the masses) should superimpose all other egoistic motives of individuals, IF INDEED OUR MISSION IS FOR THE MASSES!
Czar.....Àsę ñ t'Èdùmàrè
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