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Anambra, PDP, and Other Matters
Do you know that President Mohammadu Buhari looks set for re-election in 2019?
2019? Buhari? How?
I don’t know what you are reading in the so-called horizon. The much I know is that many Nigerians have been shouting themselves hoarse that Buhari has offloaded unprecedented hardship on them.
That is just one side of the narrative of the minority. Look, did you notice that the All Progressives Congress (APC) came second in the just concluded Anambra guber election? Can’t you see APC is coming up in the South East?
Have you noticed also that the PDP crisis is intractable? Have you not seen that the party will continue to feud and bicker till and even after the 2019 elections? Look, I am telling you that before the elections in 2019, all the stumbling blocks between Buhari and the presidency would have all been cleared off. Even the budding economy would have waxed stronger in such a way that people will not even remember the hardship they had experienced.
Who told you? Do you know that the APC stock will soon be depleting?
Do you know many of the people in APC right now are just holding on for any possible benefit before they will jump off the APC ship?
Or have you not heard that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has defected from the APC and that he is likely to drag the Adamawa State governor along?
Don’t mind that come-and-chop politician. He is a typical politician constantly in search of what to benefit. As soon as one table dries up of what he needs, he moves to the next. Can you count the number of times he had decamped from PDP to APC and vice versa? How flirtatious can a politician be?
You should be charitable in your commentary. Do you know deeply supportive of the Buhari administration Atiku had been? Do you know how many vehicles he donated to the Buhari campaign organization at the time? Do you know how much cash he also donated? What has he got in return, two years after? Don’t you know how spitefully they have treated him?
Are you not aware of the trouble Intels is facing right now because there is a determination to teach Atiku a lesson or two?
Say the things you know. Do you know one of the spokesmen of Buhari was nominated by Atiku? Do you know how many ministerial slots he was given? Didn’t you hear the outburst of that Mama Taraba the other time? Just stay clear of politicians’ warfare.
Let me add that with or without Atiku, the PDP will not see the light day anymore. They are like Mugabe, their era is past.
Who would have thought that the PDP will drop to a distant third position in the Anambra guber polls of last Saturday, with all that Peter Obi stands for and did for the people of the state? Does it not tell you that the PDP market is over?
There is a strong feeling that there is a crackdown on politicians who could offer financial lifeline to the PDP because the ruling party knows that the main opposition party is broke and if it remains like that, it will hardly have the capacity to challenge it in the next election. And that is why there is a sudden clampdown on people like Anyim Pius Anyim, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, as well as the attempt to rein in the likes of Ayo Oke and Mr Ekpeyong, former Directors General of NIA and DSS respectively.
Are you saying that Ekpeyong and Oke are also politicians that must be hacked down so as to cripple the PDP? Look, it is a sentiment like this that has kept Nigeria where we are. For God’s sake, anybody who has a case to answer should go forth and answer same and stop hiding under the thin sheet of politics.
Nobody is above the law. It is also talks like this that has stalled the investigation of Godswill Akpabio since September 2015 when the operatives of the DSS broke into some guest houses in the Akwa Ibom State House where some hard currencies and arms belonging to the Senate’s Minority Leader were recovered.
Till date, that matter has seemingly died. Nobody knows what happened to the case.
In the same way, the bribery case against
Hon Lawan Farouk seems jinxed. Mr Femi Otedola had alleged that Lawan had demanded bribe from him so his company (Forte Oil) will be exempted from indictment in a House of Reps investigation. Lawan who initially admitted committing the crime, suddenly changed his plea and since then, the Nigerian people have been in the dark on the progress of the case.
Or what shall we say about the recorded voice of the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, who was heard threatening to kill an INEC official if he failed to do as instructed.
When those cases are pursued to their logical conclusion, people like you will yell that it is political persecution.
Look, all we are saying is that Nigeria is corrupt, we know. But the corrupt Nigerians are not just massed up in one political party. It cuts across. So the clampdown on such people should also cut across.
What are you implying? Were you not here when David Babachir Lawal was sacked and now to be prosecuted for the grass-cutting scandal? Was he not an APC chieftain?