The crisis rocking the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will expose a lot of things, it will expose all
the shady deals that were on in the country, it will show the type of leaders
we have at the same time it will be an eye opener for the Nigerian citizen that
majority of this politicians are just in government in order to better
themselves and their families alone, nothing more than that.
It was gathered that the
Presidency was set to remove the nominees of so called ‘’ rebel governors’’
that is the members of Barage ledNew PDP from boards of federal parastatals and
the withdrawal of any form of government patronage terms of contracts etc. Part
of this is also to ensure that more governors sympathetic to the Alhaji
Abubakar Barage-ledNew PDP also lose
their landed properties in Abuja.
True to that claim, one
of the seven governors in the New
PDP, Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano
State, had a choice piece of land allocated to him in Maitama District, Abuja,
revoked by the FCTA on Saturday.
The others known as
rebel governors are: Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Babangida
Aliyu (Niger); Rotimi Ameachi (Rivers); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara);
and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).t.
A source in the
Presidency said that Baraje, who is the chairman of the board of the Nigerian
Railway Corporation, would soon lose the job. And added that ,“This is just the
beginning. We have pleaded with them and we have even made concessions but they
are adamant. It will soon be their turn to beg.”
However, Ahmed Gulak, the
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matter denied
knowledge of plan to sack members of the New
PDP serving on the boards of
federal agencies and that the Presidency was not involved in
the fate of the aggrieved governors, however contradicted himself by saying
that the honourable thing he expected
the likes of Baraje to do was to resign their appointments before fighting the
person that appointed them.
He said, “I am not
aware of any plan to sack those of them on boards of government agencies but if
I were Baraje, I would have resigned my appointment before fighting the person
that appointed me. That is the honourable thing to do.”
The statements of Gulak ,show
that all the appointments, positions, etc were shared not on merits in the
first instance but on ‘’Pady-Pady’ level in order to run the country down
economically.
Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, the
National Publicity Secretary of the New PDP said “This is no longer democracy;
we are experiencing a military regime under the guise of democracy.
“It is very unfortunate
that while we are crying about democracy to the outside world and the need to
entrench democracy here, we are fighting our fellow democrats just because of
their political beliefs.”
He added that, “If
revoking the landed properties of our members in Abuja and elsewhere is all
they can do, they should look for better things to do.
“If this is the way they
want to rule Nigeria in 2015, we will do everything legally possible to ensure
that no military exposed mentality will have its way.
“Let them go ahead and
use this opportunity to fully expose themselves to the Nigerian people, we must
elect people who will truly serve Nigerians and not those who will serve
themselves.”
My own candid advise to
all Nigerians is that we need to wake-up from slumber and prepare to take our
rightful position as a bona-fide citizen of this great country.
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