December 9
Governorship Primaries
Peace or Pieces
Red Alert Weekend
Let the people speak
and....choose
December 9
Gubernatorial Hurdles
Soar or Sink
Red Alert Weekend
Let the masses make
or....break
December 9
People's Democratic Party
Gory or Glory
Red Alert Weekend
Oh, we goodly wish
and....pray
Whoever loves Nigeria must pray that this weekend helps the ruling party and the nation to do things right. The primaries for governorship slots hold tomorrow, 9 December, and PDP being the largest party/beneficiary from the 2003 Elections will have a blast and flurries. Why not!
The party controls 27 of the 36 states of our federation, as well as the presidency and the federal parliament. Most of the gubernatorial slots are vacant and up for grabs in 2007. Many aspirants willy nilly believe that winning the primaries is almost a guarantee that they would clinch the post in the elections! Very tempting indeed.
And because the field is unusually crowded this time around, there is so much at stake. For this reason, the EFCC warns that the money-politics trend it has spotted so far be stopped or else!
The security agencies have also cautioned against violence and other forms of criminality in the campaigns/contests. The atmosphere is charged! Not unexpected.
So, why Red Alert? Simple: Our politicians are bad losers and selfish/greedy winners!
Why Red Alert? History: The PDP has huge problems of indiscipline, internal contradictions and incessant bickering. It is a house of unlikely bedfellows!
Why Red Alert? Oh, because there are many other political parties waiting in the wings, hoping to gain from dissent and disaffection from the conduct/outcomes of the PDP Primaries!
Pray, this weekend will thus make or unmake the careers of many a political gladiator, even as it will drain or fill the political capital of both the PDP and its competitors.
Still Red Alert? No question.
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