PDP Has Not Learnt From Past Mistakes

The Senator representing Anambra North and PDP governorship aspirant in the concluded primary, Mrs Stella Oduah, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had not learnt from its past mistakes, contrary to recent public “undertakings’’ by its leadership.

She said this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja on Wednesday, stressing that the party had resumed the denigration of internal democracy, characterised by impunity and imposition of candidates on members and other misdeeds.

Oduah recalled that impunity, imposition, disregard for members and other acts of irregularities in the party’s activities led to its losses in the 2015 general elections.

She said that some of those traits, especially imposition of candidates on members in utter disobedience for internal democracy tenets were recorded in the party’s recent governorship primary election in Anambra.

There is nothing new in Oduah’s narrative, because it is often said that the leopard hardly changes its colour. PDP still remains a party with almost the same politicians with the same thing in common. It is just like a new wine in old bottle.

But instead of complaining of the impunity that characterised PDP in 2015 of which she (Oduah) was a great beneficiary, Oduah should play her own positive role in redeeming the party. Such role cannot be played by criticising the party openly, but by engaging it constructively.

If Oduah’s grudge is about the outcome of the party governorship primary in Anambra from which she withdrew at eleventh hour, that is expected. Maybe Oduah has forgotten that political power is contested for and not given on a platform of gold. Having withdrawn from the race, Oduah lacks the moral ground to complain of its outcome. Besides, in a political contest, there must be losers and winners. Having lost in the primary, it behoves Oduah to work for the success of PDP in the poll. This is because it remains her political platform for now, unless she is defecting to APC. Let her be reminded that there is no party without its own peculiar challenges. have looted like Jonathan.

Jonathan stated on his Facebook page on Wednesday, that it was funny that no evidence of looting had been established against him, yet the APC spokesman, Abdullahi

Bolaji, said he looted public treasury.

Hmmm, Having kept quiet for a long time in the face of the mind-boggling revelations of looting that characterised his government, Jonathan just like Atiku, has challenged his traducers to show evidence of corruption against him.

Even though, none of those who served in the Jonathan government has been prosecuted for corruption, that has not invalidate the fact that the disclosures are shocking as they are embarrassing.

Again, that Jonathan is not directly linked with any of this looting spree that characterised his government does not mean that he cannot take any responsibility or blame for the graft. He has his own fair share of the blame.

Meanwhile, the Apc-led government should not only provide evidence of looting against Jonathan, it should provide answers to the poser raised by Jonathan that N14 trillion budget money in the last two years should be accounted for. It will help Nigerians to know how transparent and accountable the APC government is.