Fate Of Ndigbo As PDP Set To Pick Candidate From The North

Fate Of Ndigbo As PDP Set To Pick Candidate From The North - Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu

By Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu
Now that the Post-Election Review Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party headed by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has submitted its report to the party’s national working committee with a recommendation that the party should pick its presidential candidate in the 2019 election from the North, what is the fate of majority of my Igbo brothers that shamelessly and baselessly supported the party during the 2015 presidential elections. I think it is time for Igbos to join hands and support the government because with the latest development, no Igbo should dream of taking over Aso Rock at least in the next 12 years.
I am even shocked that the PDP committee headed by Ekweremadu failed to consider the southeast despite the baseless overwhelming support the party has been enjoying from there. However, it is safe to believe that the latest opposition party decided to be smart because if the party reserves the presidential slot for the southeast in 2019, that will be a permanent death for the party as no Igbo man with the current baseless sentiments of southeasterners, can influence other geopolitical zones to win the presidential poll in 2019 if president Buhari fails to execute the change that he was voted for.
Let us all join hands with the government to achieve the change we all desired. Never allow selfish politicians and hypocrites to deceive you with the long outdated tribal sentiments. Let us see every Nigerian as our brother and sustain our unity in diversity.
God bless Nigeria.

Comments

State House of Assembly collected bribes from commissioner nominees

An N2.4 million bribery scam is rocking the Delta State House of Assembly. SaharaReporters learned that the Speaker, Monday Igbuya, and other members of the State House of Assembly allegedly collected N200,000 bribes from the twelve commissioner nominees forwarded by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for “screening.” Confiding in a SaharaReporters correspondent, a senior management staff person of the State’s House of Assembly who did not want to be named disclosed that one of the commissioner nominees told him in confidence how the twelve nominees’ arms were twisted to pay N200,000 each. The ultimatum was that without the N200,000 none of them would be cleared by the lawmakers. However, the source said, “If you were around during their screening on the floor of the House, you would have noticed that all the nominees were only told to take a bow” and to go. An aide to one of the commissioners who pleaded anonymity confided in SaharaReporters that the money was definitively give...

EFCC Arrested NAFDAC DG

Two weeks after whistleblowers at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) wrote a powerful petition to President Muhammadu Buhari alleging monumental fraud and waste of funds by its Director-General, Dr. Paul B. Orhii, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday swung into action. Dr. Orhii was grilled for several hours on issues relating to fraud and misappropriation of funds worth billions of naira, a source told SaharaReporters. The petitioners had accused the Director-General of awarding frivolous contracts and supplies; manipulating NAFDAC publicity and donations; international air travel racketeering; and compulsory recertification by bottle and sachet water producers. The complaint listed 14 companies that are being used in the money games at NAFDAC. An EFCC source said Orhii was granted “administrative bail”...

BUHARI: TURNING APPOINTMENTS INTO DISAPPOINTMENTS

By Jaafar Jaafar Ponder over this Hausa proverb: “sawun keke ba’a gane gabanka”, which roughly translates to “a bicycle’s contact patch does not tell where it comes from or where it heads to”, and see how it aptly describes Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. Bearing in mind the current realities in our polity, how would you, in your wildest dream, think the Secretary to the Government of the Federation will come from the North? The very North that has a President, a Senate President, a Speaker, a Head of Service, a Chief of Staff, a Chief Justice, and what not? While Mr. President is likened to the proverbial “sawun keke”, the pigmentation of his appointments may be likened to “birgimar hankaka”, literally meaning the wallow of a pied crow. When a pied crow wallows, the Hausa say, you will see both the white patch on its gullet and the black plumage that covers most of the bird’s body. In the appointment of the GMD of NNPC, President Buhari showed Nigeria...

Extra Reporters

Search This Blog