WHO SPONSORED WHO?

Diary wrote on PDP:TRULY NOT DEMOCRACT!  With a constructive criticism about there  leadership and management of  entire affairs of the country for the past 13 years in power. failures overwhelm the success and development in the governing processes. these piece is a continuation of the above piece.

Though the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced that the new members of the National Working Committee (NWC), were elected by consensus and that other contestants stepped down for the ‘winners’, insiders in the party told Sunday Trust that the new executive was the product of political horse-trading among top elders and few governors in the party.

For instance, the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was single-handedly picked by President Goodluck Jonathan for the position, while the National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, was conceded to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, an action that angered close to a dozen other contenders for the job. Furthermore, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha who emerged as the National Organising Secretary of the party was picked by Vice President Namadi Sambo, in the hope that Mustapha would begin to oil Sambo’s 2015 presidential project.

Others who rode to the juicy NWC on the crest of powerful party leaders include former Aviation Minister, Mrs Kema Chikwe, who was brought in by Obasanjo; the National Legal Adviser, Barrister Victor Pam, who was nominated by the party’s first National Chairman, Chief Solomon Lar, and the 60-year-old National Youth Leader, Malam Umar Garba Chiza, was brought into that position by the governor of Niger State, Dr Babangida Aliyu.  Dr Aliyu happens to be the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum. His counterpart, the Chairman of the Governors Forum, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Sunday Trust learnt, was behind the candidature of the newly elected Deputy National Chairman, Dr Sam Sam Jaja.

The impositions by the elders of the party took the wind off the sail at the national convention, as many contestants couldn’t hide their discontent with the arrangement. However, Sunday Trust learnt that many of the frontline contestants have been promised ministerial appointments in a planned cabinet reshuffle by the Jonathan administration. Others have been promised appointments into juicy boards of Federal Government’s parastatals

These depict that majority of it’s members are in political circle to enrich themselves and there family, not for selfless service to humanity. I believe in consensus but voluntarily not as Mr president force other candidates to step down for his right man, then where is the DEMOCRACY?