PDP’s region-wide rejection deserved, party unfair to Southeast

By Chima Christian

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s 2022 nomination, against the spirit and letters of the party’s constitution, seems to be the last straw that broke the camel’s back. For the PDP, that day of reckoning has come for it in the southeast.

The records are there, the southeast has always voted for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Today, the party has so badly lost weight in the region that it went from controlling all the states in 1999 to now controlling one. And the one it struggled to latch on to was after a dutiful implementation of the Lagos formula of violence, voter intimidation and strange manufacture of fictitious votes.

Not only has the party lost almost all the states in the southeast, but the party that has always won the region overwhelmingly in all presidential elections since 1999 struggled to muster even 10% of the votes in the region this time.

Anyone who is truthful should find it easy to acknowledge that the PDP badly grieved the people of the southeast. The quality of candidates the party has been nominating for various positions, with just a handful of exceptions, has been nothing but mediocre.

From Enugu to Abia, the quality of governance those elected on the platform of the PDP have been offering the southeast is also underwhelming. Perhaps the most poignant example of this subpar PDP leadership in the region is to be found in Abia state which has had 24 unbroken years of PDP leadership. Poor governance in Abia state, as an example, largely explains the southeast’s quest for alternatives.

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s 2022 nomination, against the spirit and letters of the party’s constitution, seems to be the last straw that broke the camel’s back. For the PDP, that day of reckoning has come for it in the southeast.

Save for miracles, even the one they struggled to retain will be taken away from them, and there will be no coming back for the party from there. PDP held so much promise for the people of the southeast. We collectively mourn its eventual death in the region. The eventual death of PDP and the terminal illness of APGA in the southeast should serve as both a warning and a reminder to the Labour Party.

Once that proverbial salt loses its flavour, it is only a matter of time before it is thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

The pictures and videos coming from Abia recast that vision of Africa’s morning. The journey is still far, yet Africa’s morning will come.

Chima Christian is a Public Affairs Analyst.

Revenue generation: AMAC Inaugurates 10 taskforce committee members

By Usman Shuaibu

The Executive chairman of Abuja Municipal Area council in the FCT, Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, has inaugurated ten Taskforce committee members for the sake of revenue generation in the area.

The committee members are: the Executive Chairman of AMAC; Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, Yunusa Ahmadu Yusuf; Taskforce Chairman, Kingsley Madaki; Secretary, Chief Magistrate Habiba I.U Bello; AMAC mobile court magistrate and Magistrate Bamisile Olumide Ayopo.

Others include: Magistrate Abubakar Abdulkadir Jega, magistrate Ngozi Clementina Okonkwo, Ndudi Ezekiel Chidi; AMAC Taskforce legal Adviser, Danjuma John and Douglas Itiat.

While delivering his speech, Maikalangu told the Task force members that their choice to serve was based on the confidence reposed in them, as he said nothing less was expected from them.

He said: “To the Glory of God and for the betterment of humanity and by the powers conferred on me as the Executive Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, I hereby inaugurate the AMAC Taskforce on Revenue Enforcement monitoring and Inspection today”

“you must esshew any form of corrupt act, favouritism or narrowmindedness as to whom much is given, much is also expected, the Chairman warned.