A President and his Governors!

The last fourteen years in Nigerian history would certainly go down in history as the worst in every measure of human catastrophe. Not even colonial period and the civil war era as well as other minor and major tragedies that befell the nation before 1999 could rival the pogrom, mayhem, misrule and all other negative […]

The last fourteen years in Nigerian history would certainly go down in history as the worst in every measure of human catastrophe. Not even colonial period and the civil war era as well as other minor and major tragedies that befell the nation before 1999 could rival the pogrom, mayhem, misrule and all other negative additives as we have seen under the governments of the PDP since 1999.
In electoral history, the charades that occasioned several of the four different polls we have in the name of general elections especially the one of 2007 would remain thresholds in global electoral frauds. Yet, those who benefited form these obstructions have made very violent and wrong uses with power.
As we speak today, the essence of modern state system has been grossly violated and the sanctity of life and property completely lost in Nigeria. Almost everyone of us goes to sleep with two eyes open due to poor political brinkmanship that has yielded so much social disparity and equilibrium whose effects are by the minutes manifesting in form of violent agitations from the aggrieved energetic exuberant young people who have no other way to dispense of the tremendous energies of youthfulness because they are out of school and out of jobs and it appears there is nobody out there ready to care for them.
Nigeria under the PDP has become a worst-case scenario of the literary animal farm. If this is what democracy means, then, it is unfortunate; we are getting it completely wrong and in tears and blood.
The desperation by the PDP national leadership under Bamanga Tukur in cohort with Goodluck Jonathan to wrestle the mantle of the party from domination of the governors, a clear agenda that in the first place was speculated as reason behind the enforcement of BAMANGA Tukur down the party throat has come to the open.
For some days now, rumors of presidential dissatisfaction with the manner Rotimi Amaechi was piloting the affairs of the Nigeria Governors Forum was all over the place. Attempts to make the forum remove him was made with the hard place, the only alternative was thus the very unintelligent strategy of coming up with what they called the PDP Governors Forum and ready to provide leadership is the noisy governor of Akwa-Ibom state.
The PDP leadership at the highest level may not know that the singular act of that creation has not only exposed the level of divide in their rank but has open a vistas of deeper contradiction within the party and thus making it easy for the presidency and Wadata House to be dragged in the mud by its own members.
I will be surprised if many governors of the PDP extraction would go along with the new tradition against the old. The reason is simple, they would lose their relevance, they would henceforth be subjects of presidential palace and the president in Abuja would decide who becomes a councilor in any local government area of any state not to talk of other senior elective and appointive positions both at the state and the center.
Even if it is a party affair as indeed it is, what has Amaeachi done to earn so much anger of Bamanga and Jonathan? The guy is lucky he is doing a second term already he would have faced the Timpriye Silva option, and that precisely is why I will advise my PDP friends who are governors to stay put with the Amaechi fold rather than go towards Goodswill Akapbio. It will be suicidal if they fall into that trap under whatever circumstance.
The message in all these is a clear. The PDP is desperate and about to loose power to the popular will of Nigerians. It shows clearly that the desperation has reached crescendo and there is confusion all over the place. The governors are struggling to retain their relevance and hold on the party while the presidency is increasing the tempo of its agitation to shove aside the powerful governors so that anything and everything that is PDP would come straight from the villa.
In my thinking, it is better to have centers of power in a polity than just having one that can make and unmake at will. That is called dictatorship in political lexicon and it is more dangerous than power diffusion.
It is amazing that the president and his men can waste so much time and resources in minor issues that boarder around ego and self-ambition at the expense of the nation and its peoples. Why should President Jonathan get jittery mid way into a term he promised to be his last?  Adding salt to injury, a term that is bedeviled by so much issues that have kept the nation years back. A tenure that is unprecedented in the quantum damages and wastages to man and resources. A tenure characterized by blood bath, sorrow, tears and blood.
I thought the PDP and its President would await the verdict of Nigerians on whether to continue or not. I am of the view that the arrogance with which the PDP officials talk to Nigerians is amazing. They rudely tell us they would rule for one hundred years whether we like it or not.
If democracy is a game of number, the views of the citizens must take center stage. The crisis that is brewing in the party shows that the game is up and the party would face the verdict of the people. I am of the view that the time has come when desperation would be met with the will of the people. It cannot be business as usual.
We say more grease to the elbows of the PDP and its officials and reiterate that they cannot have it the way they had it in the past. It is time that the Nigerian opposition organizes itself so that it can cash in on the opportunities that are now open to wrestle power from the hands of the PDP and its officials.
The election of Chief Tony Anenih to chair its board of trustees in my view is another huge blunder. Papa can no longer fix anything because he is already under fix in his native Edo state where Adams Oshiomhole holds forte. Again, the party was unable to do an election amongst the contestants who aspired to head the BoT.
The simple meaning of that is that ‘the largest party in Africa’ has yet failed in democracy. God save Nigeria. May the crisis in the PDP continue to abate so that Nigeria may be the better for it.