Eddy Odivwri
Did you hear the latest development in the opposition party in Nigeria?
What development again? Have they said they won’t contest the 2023 presidential election?
How can they say so? Don’t you know it is one of the most viable alternative political platforms in Nigeria?
So what is happening within the Umbrella party? This is rainy season!
The Political party is trying to restructure, so it can weather the pending storm of 2023.
(Mimicking) Viable political platform my foot! Is that how to be a viable political party? Can’t you see that the so-called viable opposition political party is wearing itself thin with needless troubles and crises?
Don’t worry, it is the way of political parties. It will soon rejig itself and get re-kitted for the battle ahead. The elders of the party are in the Board of Trustees. They will soon intervene and flog everybody into line,
You don’t seem to understand that this crisis is being brewed from the same homestead. It is easier managed when it is existing between two far-flung allies, not people of the same kindred spirit. Or did you not hear that the Court injunction stopping the former National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, from parading himself as one, was granted by a court in his own Rivers State?
Trust me, when I say the BoT will intervene and restore order very very soon. It is a family affair. The PDP is one big indivisible family.
Sir, you are not only deluding yourself, you are deceiving yourself, if you still think the PDP is indivisible. This is a political party that has lost two major governors—one in the South (Cross River) and another in the north (Zamfara) in less than two months. The Ebonyi governor, Dave Umahi had earlier dumped the party. And you say it is one indivisible political family. Sir, this your PDP family is not better than the Cain-and-Abel family.
Don’t be naïve. Don’t you know that the APC is fueling the crisis so it will have a smooth sail into 2023? But I tell you that Nigerians and indeed the PDP is wiser. We have seen through the gimmick of the APC and all efforts are being put in place to foil the plan of our enemies. We shall emerge stronger, bigger and better from this little shake up.
You call this a “little shake-up”? Secondus has been stopped. Two Deputy National Chairmen of the party are already feuding between themselves on how to take-over the party and whatever that is left of it. Sir can’t you see that the PDP is like a Kingdom fighting against itself? Did the Holy Book not say, a Kingdom divided against itself cannot stand?
(cuts in)… Don’t quote unrelated scriptures here. The PDP Kingdom is not divided against itself. It is a minor squabble, which is not unexpected in the quest for power matrix. Look, I advise you not to be hasty in judging the PDP. It will bounce back to rescue Nigeria and Nigerians from the maladministration we are experiencing now in this country. The APC knows this, that is why it is not comfortable having a peaceful and cohesive PDP. We know these silly gimmicks!
I will remind you that the politicians in Rivers are highly adept in the use of the courts to fight their cause. Or did you forget that these same persons behind the court order against Secondus are the same persons who funded and influenced the court injunctions that barred the APC from participating in the 2019 contest in Rivers State? Have you forgotten? Can’t you see they are experienced political litigants? So, do not think that Secondus will soon be out of the woods he has been thrown into, not even if he suddenly becomes Firstus.
The BoT will not spare anybody trying to sabotage the reconciliatory efforts of the party, no matter how highly placed. The party’s disciplinary measures will be fully and unsparingly applied, no matter whose Ox is gored.
Sir, it is either you don’t know what you are saying or you do not mean what you are saying. Are you implying that you need any investigation to know that it is the River State governor, Nyesom Wike that is behind the travails of Secondus? When the BoT forced Secondus to survive the onslaught against him recently against the wish and moves of Wike, did you people think that the Ikwerre politician will go home sulking and confounded?
Wike and co wanted their kinsman removed. You Hausa people wanted him retained. Now the rug has been summarily pulled off his feet, right from home. So tell me how you strangers will come and fix the crack in the domestic hearth.
And I dare you tell me who will sanction Wike in the PDP structure. Who will discipline him, Is it BoT or ToB?
You see why the PDP has ego problem? There are too many Big men with Bigger ego in the PDP. Everybody talks like he or she is a political Deus Ex Machina. And unless the party is weaned of this malaise, it will cost the PDP the presidency again in 2023.
I take exception to false prophecy. There is nothing like that. Nigerians are tired of the antics and strategies of poverty and suffering unleashed on them by the APC-led government. They are waiting for the PDP to redeem Nigeria and wrest it from the grip of hardship and stress. So don’t you speak of what you do not know here in the name of political prophecy.
I am not a political prophet. But I can tell you that from what is on the horizon, the PDP Is in for a long drive in the dark. A kingdom not governed by law and discipline can never make sustained progress. The political demagogues in the party are too many. If they are not careful, they will soon feud till they will cancel themselves out and the field will be open for the APC all over again.
God forbid! But truth be told: Secondus also caused some of these uprisings. He suddenly and unilaterally shifted the early convention agreed to by the BoT to late November, instead of September that was agreed to, all so he can remain longer in power.
Well, I agree that everybody must be reined in if the party will survive.
