PDP AND 2007: MATTERS
ARISING
USMAN GARBA
SANTURAKI
WROTE IN FROM NO.74 TAFIDA STR
JIMETA-YOLA.
Sept 4, 2006
The recent guidelines by the PDP that before one gets
the party’s ticket had to be a registered member for
at least two years is ploy by the leadership of the
party to do away with people. Equally, the directives
to aspirants that one has to resign from the seat that
he or she is occupying 30 days to the primaries is
really to hamstrung those that are only desirous to
occupied various political offices to the detriment
and at the expense of the people.
Though, it is good the initiative, but, at least there
is the ample need for the party to seriously have a
thought about the issues as there is the likelihood
that the party may lose potential aspirants that would
have greatly help the party to actualize the
philosophy and manifesto of the party towards
alleviating the problems bedeviling the nation such as
the unemployment, insecurity, inadequate power supply
that have become the order of the day thereby leading
to the closure of so many industries across the
It also implies that the recent guidelines made by the
party, is quite tailored towards eliminating some
aspirants that have so far indicated their ambition to
vie for the office of the President, Governor and
The PDP as the largest political party in Africa as
being postulated by it’s rank and file and even
supporters need to open and have a free level field
for those that want to contest for the aforementioned
political offices during the coming 2007 general
From all indication, and with the defeat of the famous
third term, the current leadership of the party is not
quite disposed to having some people that does not
aligned themselves with them from getting political
offices through a free and fair election. The thinking
of the leaders is that they cannot tow towards them.
In other words, the leaders could only dance to the
tune of its masters that can only dictates to them on
what they want them to do for them.
Until proved that the leaders have no any inkling to
what is in the offing as regards the people vying for
elective offices who cannot perform there is no point
raising and placing this criterion of being a card
carrying member and has spend two year in the party
before vying for elective position under the banner of
the so-called the largest political party in the
The guidelines from all intents and purposes, are
meant to drive away so many potential, hard working
politicians that have their eyes on some key political
Some people opined that the leadership of the party is
only following the dictates of a person that was face
with no option than to pack his luggages for the final
disengagement from the Aso-Rock to the comfort of his
farm at otta so as to have time and crack jokes.
All the unsavouring incidents recorded so far are
unsettling in the PDP under Dr. Ahmadu Ali the current
Chairman of the party. The new guidelines are
primarily adopted to really suit the personal desire
of one that wanted to become relevant even if he
Desperation, intriques, maneuvering have all rear
their ugly head in order to champion the cause of a
man that thought that there is no any
reasonable,credible and honest person that can
Steer the big ship of the country. After, all the
gruely and unscrupulous manner that the party wanted
to take by supporting the now (dead) third term which
publicly the garrison commander Ahmadu Ali admitted
that the party supported and threaten to deal with any
member of the party that does not support it, the
party now want to deal with anti- third timers.
Interestingly, the politics in the PDP is becoming
sophisticated as the members of the political party no
longer feel threaten by the threat made by the
leadership of the party that want to use coercion to
force them support an illegal act like the elongation
of the tenure of the present administration of
The new guidelines of the PDP would lead to a mass
exodus of a great number of party supporters defecting
to other political parties. It is quite to scuttle the
ambition of some people that the PDP come out with the
guidelines and this people are the ones that made what
PDP is today by using their time, energy and resources
to uplift the party and put it on the pedestal of
success in 1999 and 2003.
As a political party that pronounced itself the
largest in Africa, it ought to leave its door wide
open for all its members seeking for the various
political offices in 2007. But, with the guidelines
adopted by the party, there is the possibility to see
mass anti-party activities by those that can even
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