Peoples destructive, deceptive, dying, undemocratic, dangerous Part are amongst the many names I have used at different occasions to describe Africas Largest Party as it claims. Not that I have any qualms to that assertion. The largest sleeping giant should naturally be home to the biggest. However my concern for this piece is the nation herself. Nigeria is gradually turning into a democratic pariah state, with only one party and the others. The inability to distinguish between the Pdp and the government of Nigeria is a grave concern to me. Our case in party politics and governance is now like The chemistry teacher, who was performing an experiment with a class. He mistakenly spilled some acid solution on a students hand. When the student cried out, other teachers rushed in only compound the problem. The Mathematics teacher was busy calculating the ratio of the injured part, while the English teacher was writing an essay about the incident. The Biology teacher was naming the injured parts. The Account teacher was preparing a credit note on the waste of acid. The Fine Arts teacher was sketching the affected hand and the Economics teacher was screaming on the need to economize the remaining acid for the next experiment. Nigeria is the student and the various teachers display the different faces and antics the PDP represents to this nation. One does not know exactly where the PDP stops and where governance of this nation starts, as of the last elections over 20 something parties participated one way or the other, even those that ended up not presenting candidates still collected money from PDPs Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. Lets not loose the fact that the average Nigerian is aware of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP, Alliance for Democracy AD, and the others. With strongholds in certain parts of the north, the ANPP has excelled. But with the marriage of concession entered between the PDP and AD which today sees only Lagos as the surviving son of that arrangeme3nt is pathetic, dont forget that the party now is home to two factions, two chairmen each holding claim to the party is just a pity. Why are my concerned? I am concerned because of the unhealthy trend this development holds for the future of our democratic experiment. The non-existence of any form of viable opposition in any democratic situation is grave for the system. The other day the controversial steward of the FCT Mallam el-Rufai goofed when he said government policies cannot be questionednot strange given the very dictatorial backing he has got from the high to act as hatchet man to those disobedient to the party. Many times I have tried to convince myself that we are in a democratic setting, but with statements such as no going back on this and that, this and that must, that cannot, and this is final. I get scared of the direction we seem to be taking. Very recently the lord of PDP, chief Tony Anienh said the government would provide 10million plus jobs, that is no news, from PAP to NEEDS, but the authority with which he said it, not that the government run by the PDP but that the government. The typical PDP arrogance of the man who once told the entire Nigerians that Aso rock was not vacant pre 2003 elections. Much, as I do not subscribe to the proliferation of Political Parties. I strongly believe that a party like the ANPP has a right to be dominant in certain areas just like a hundred and one other parties: provide service and governance in line with its campaign promises, especially within the confines of the practice of Federalism. Not the trash we have now, landslide, earthquaking and ocean moving victories of one party from local state to federal level. Validating the theory of sheepish followership: a situation where we are made to understand that in a village of 200, all 200 dummies simply voted the lead sheep PDP no dissenting voice. Like the movie under production called 2007, I have been forced to say I would vote the National Conscience Party if only to voice an opposition. Marwa, IBB, Atiku, Odili et al in contention for the only one goalkeeper team shirt in the PDP. Are there no other parties? Mr. Fix it, Tony Anienh, now a demigod said that Uncle Sege would be the one to chose his successor, only added another insult on the face of the generality of Nigerians. My only consolation is the fact that we all know the man is an unknown quantity. Nevertheless his comments in the light of fraudulent party machinery is not one to be taken for granted. The same Tony as Minister of works (idleness) and housing (homelessness) prophesied the landslide we saw in 2003. The way taxpayers monies are deployed in the schemes, manoeveurs of the PDP structure leaves much to be desired from the opposition. To say the least it is shameful as we daily see how the Abuja Dogs of the PDP have exhibited federal mighty against puppies at the lower levels of government. The public confusion that is called zoning of the presidency at the moment is an entirely PDP thing. Who said that another qualified Yoruba cannot be President come 2007 if he is voted in by popular vote, if he is the product of another party. Are we running the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or PDPs? Outright killing of the opposition by any and all means necessary is the motto of the ruling party; its a sorry tale, the cultism that the PDP has brought upon the nation. The Okija shrine bestseller, the Ngigegate episode, looting via due process is most disturbing. Those who comply in the opposition are compensated and those who refuse are killed by armed robbers. On the Plateau crisis, hear retired and tired Air Commodore Jonah Jang, if the President has called on me to come and repair the damage that has wrecked the PDP in the state who am I? Politics without morale. Jonah Jang in A five year period has been to and fro PDP, ANPP and now on a rescue mission to PDP. In a forum I had said that the average Nigerian politician will most likely be a member to an average of three political parties and as many minor ones. This same Jang was a Trustee Board Member, he moved to ANPP, now he is on the move. What manner of people! What manner of nation! Afe Babalola, a man whose legal acumen I do not doubthas showed nothing short of moral bankruptcy as regards our political field. Though in law the carrots dictates the dance, yet I do see how the same man handling all most all PDP briefs, and then handling a prime AD case against a PDP governor. The opposition in Kenya may not have done better than Arap Moi, but the strength in resolve and character showed is one that can be emulated. That the Republicans are in power in the USA, does not in anyway belittle the stiff fight the Democrats provide. And lets not loose fact that the Republican may have a thrust in governance, but it is entirely different from the US government policies which is a function of ruler, oppositions and the ruled. Very few politicians have passed credibility tests as regards the business of opposition, the Ganis Soyinkas, Balarabe Musa and their likes have helped despite their sometimes nuisance valuebut that is the beauty of participatory democracy. Each occasion the Conference of National Political Parties has tried to step up to the podium, they are cowered down by the Peoples Democratic Nigerian Police and its agents. The every day growing arrogance of the PDP only sails the Nigerian ship to the concentration of power in few hands, thereby the increase in deprivation, domination, marginalisation and alienation of the masses. Thew idea of crush the opposition is not strange I think maybe because the word opposition is strange to the African vocabulary, what we have is enemy. Which is demonstrated in thuggery, arson, and all forms of bloodletting. With the track being followed the term multi-party is gradually becoming an alien term. The need to sit and restructure the membership of the Board of Directors of this Company called Nigeria is of great importance or else. Not that I predict doom but lets \make haste while the sun shines on us. | 
