Things
are getting real messy with the ruling party in Nigeria; barely 24 hours after
the Presidency sacked Senator Joy Emordi as its Special Adviser on National
Assembly matters, the Federal Government has ordered the withdrawal of all the diplomatic passport of all 109 Senators,
and 360 members of the House of representatives, this include that of Senate
President David Mark and Aminu Tambuwal the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
However, no reason was given for the action,
but sources said it was not unconnected with the level of opposition the
Presidency is currently facing among the National Assembly members which got to
feverish peak last week.
In another development,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has backed out of the move to end the raging crisis in
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the failure of the
presidency, the party leadership and the G-7 governors to honour the truce
terms reached by all the stakeholders.
According to Obasanjo’s spokesman, he said “From all indications, both the presidency with
the party leadership and the seven governors are not ready and willing to
embrace peace; they are poised to fight to the end but this would never help
the party. The party elders have done their best by intervening in the dispute,
but the two camps are not listening, and so the likes of Obasanjo have given
up, watching the shameful scenario. It is a pity.”
He further said: “In the
rule of swimming, when you see a man drowning, those who know how to swim would
not jump into the river while the man still have enough strength to swim into
safety. This is because saving him at that time might lead to the drowning of
the two. He has to wait until the man loses hope and surrenders to the torrent.
Baba (Obasanjo) has done his best; he called some elders of the party with a
view to intervening, but the two camps are not ready to listen to the voice of
elders.” The source further disclosed that Obasanjo was unhappy with the
dimension the crisis had taken and “foresees a problem for the party in 2015”.
Nigeria we hail thee.
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