PDP: a must join party (?)

Finally, the birds have come to roost. The result from Sokoto has sneaked in and PDP has been confirmed the undisputed political heavy weight party in Nigeria. Other political parties made a bearable gain. This is the crowning of one party state and any wise politician, should join PDP, wait for his turn and “win” election. Soon, PDP party card will be as rare as a virgin in a maternity ward. The gains by other political parties, is a disgrace, going by the campaign against PDP’s candidate in Sokoto.

After the court of Appeal nullified the election and ordered a re-run, many political analysts took to the air to interpret the judgment. Some contended that Wamakko having illegally migrated to PDP from ANPP, he is unfit and it will be a judicial hara-kiri for the election to go on and Wamakko on the ticket of PDP. The president, who has been parroting rule of law, went on full swing campaigning and mobilising for the by-election.

While Yar’Adua was using state funds to junket around, the opposition parties were busy turning to paper tigers. Baring their venom less fangs on AIT and pages of the newspaper, they failed to mobilise the people to vote against PDP. Even those who wanted to vote for these fair-weather opposition parties, do not see any variation in the manifestos of these parties from that of PDP. Before the tsunami of Sokoto and Bayelsa, it was Kogi where the tact team of ANPP and AC could not undo PDP and disgracefully Adamawa, were Atiku Abubakar could not win his local government.

The opposition parties/political right NGOs, should stop causing NEPA and light a candle. There is no organisation on ground to effectively challenge PDP. What we have on ground is a group of disgruntled and excluded ex-PDP men, masquerading as opposition. How are these riggings done? The opposition should stop shouting and become scientific and pin-point how PDP rigged these by-elections.

Nigerians are tired of the impotent boast by the opposition and have taken their faith to God, after all the General Overseer of Redeem Christian Church; Pastor Enoch Adeboye has visited Yar’Adua. Do the opposition need the devil to interpret Romans 12 Vs. 1-10 and that Nigerians are more Catholic than the Pope when it comes to being dogmatic about the teachings of the sons of (I-A)braham? The opposition should know that once a taboo is a year old, it becomes custom.

It’s one year seen the rudderless Yar’Adua administration has been at sea and the opposition cannot muster enough courage to proffer alternative. It is not only a wasted year under Yar’Adua, it is also a lost year for the opposition. There has been a lot of opportunity to engage Yar’Adua. One is the Hon. Patricia Eteh saga, another is the Prof. Adenike Grange, yet another is the Soludo case. Even the ignoble manner the new EFCC chair was appointed without first recourse to the National Assembly. What about the comatose power sector? Under OBJ, there was low shedding but under Yar’Adua, Nigeria is in total eclipse.

The hydra-headed Niger Delta that has remained a sore on our national face; what is the opposition’s alternative to PDP’s militarisation of the Niger Delta? That the VP is from Niger Delta and yet cannot calm his renegade brothers is enough to ask him to relinquish power. But because the opposition is as rudderless as PDP, the boys in the creek are asking Jimmy Carter to mediate. Isn’t this a slap on the face of the opposition?

A fine battle cry, is the 40 billion Naira voted for the importation of rice when the agricultural sector is lying fallow. There are bountiful grounds for the opposition to make this government/PDP unpopular and clinch power come 2011. Nigerians want the opposition to engage the Yar’Adua administration on how she has performed so far. Have the seven points agenda been met? What are the seven points agenda? What are the oppositions’ alternative? How can the opposition give us uninterrupted power? Whether it was OBJ that brought us into this quagmire of bad roads; no more lands in F.C.T, nor not, the fact that seems lost on the opposition, is that OBJ’s administration was a PDP government.

People should see through Yar’Adaua’s crocodile tears about the rot and loot in the power sector. It was PDP that ruined us. For a seriously minded political party, campaign for next election begins at the end of the present election. The political education of Nigerian electorates is poor. The opposition that rode on the anti-Obasanjo feelings should galvanise same into anti-PDP movement. The opposition should start now to merge, over haul themselves, do a face lift, educate Nigerians and offer themselves to Nigerians as the bride to enter into come next election by 2011.

PDP is planning for the next 60 years and most “opposition parties” are yet to organise a convention, how much more fine tune strategies to win. While plotting towards 2011, they should put PDP on her toes by proffering alternatives to the non-working policies of this administration. If the opposition is serious, they should jettison these cries over the massive judicial rigging by PDP and start planning towards 2011.

It is obvious that the hanging judgments at the Court of Appeal will still favour PDP. If no other party have won a re-run/by-election, what is the guarantee that if a new by-election is ordered that the opposition will win? Oshiomhole and Mimiko, may be conceded to give credence to the judicial charade going on. With Buhari being a political orphan, don’t expect the Supreme Court to order fresh election that will be a waste of tax payers’ money, as PDP will still win.

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