The common saying; mistake can never be one unless it is repeated has been entrenched in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The ongoing shenanigans with which saboteurs will accomplish their goal will not only mark the party’s exit, it will create an inimical posture on our progressive schedules, it will also ensure an undiminished political existence for some tyrants currently seeking to remain in power against all odds Perhaps, it’s a clear indication that governor Yahaya Bello has equipped informants who are deployed into the party to destroy it.
I can’t believe PDP has not realized the devastating errors it committed during the 2019 senatorial race. I can’t believe it’s yet to wake up from slumbers. How long will these clueless cabals influence a formidable structure like PDP to the detriment of the generality? Aren’t PDP ready to change the current narrative? Why did it choose politicking over what is supposedly a common struggle? Does it mean PDP don’t have the interest of the people at heart or they simply turned deaf ears on the untold hardship in Kogi state?
Towards the 2019, presidential/NASS election, PDP flaunted a failure as it’s senatorial flagbearer, the resultant effect was an unprecedented defeat. Although it came second, it was circumstantial and not by dint of hard work. As a matter of fact, what PDP amassed as result was an adjunct of accrued votes for the party’s presidential candidate even though every odds permitted that they should produce the senatorial candidate, and seeing the fact that the senator-elect though popular, emerged through a process that is very much ostracized in the mind of the people- an opportunity PDP would have judiciously used. But because certain coldhearted elements in the party were hell-bent on imposing their loyalist, they ended up as the architect of their own defeat.
Now, the governorship election is gathering momentum, the party has again, made a destructive move, and as I earlier said, it will mark the exit of the party in the state. How can PDP ask over 40 aspirants on the its platform to pay N75 million Naira each as nomination form fee, what is the money meant for? Is PDP embarking on a capital project? How do they want aspirants to raise such a nonrefundable amount?
At this juncture, I expect the party to be more concerned with democratic restoring courses and not endangering it. I am also certain that what is behind this extortion may not be farfetched; either, the party is paving ways for the former governors and their families or some APC element are simply at work. But then, the earlier PDP realize this tragic moves the better for them. The last time I checked, political party in democratic surroundings is meant to be freedom movement and not money-making venture, PDP should assimilate that. So that, whatever they hope to achieve with this impish move will not only constrict our hard-earned democracy, it will jeopardize the entire affairs.
I don’t want to believe PDP is becoming the enemy of the state by allowing these cabals with primitive governing ideology to dictate for them, but if it goes on with such satanic self-seeking ambition, we will be forced to see them as one. As for my opinion, any aspirant who pays such amount as nomination form fee is obviously a daylight rubber coming to steal our common patrimony.
PDP is putting Kogi state up for sale by this act and I will not allow that, my generation will not allow that and everyone craving for good governance will not allow that. N75 million imposed by PDP on its aspirants will suffix as our subsequent albatross, we will not take it. PDP should either recline from the self-enriching objective or forget about producing candidate in the forthcoming election.
Besides, there are more cognitive issues to be dealt with in the party that it seems not to have anything to do with that, but how to siphon money from aspirants vying to serve their fatherland. It has no business with the clannish permutations through which a political dynasty will soon be established in the state, rather, it’s more connected to the business of enriching its members- shame. No wonder, PDP has been fully translated to be ‘People Deceiving People’.
The current despotic scenes where civil servants no longer have senses of belonging does not matter. The shutdown economic activities in the state is inconsequential. As a matter of reality, whoever emerges the number one is not important, but who will rule at their whims and caprices. God will put them to shame.
For everyone, including me, seeking for the betterment of our land, N75 million is ridiculous. And until PDP have a rethink, we will continue to ask questions and if the need be, we will expose those behind the acts. Kogi belong to all, and those seeking to have their ways must renounce or face and unprecedented disgrace. We are waiting.
– John Paul
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