PDP Zoning, Equity and Opportunism

Few months from now, precisely five months away Nigerians would be on the march again to elect thousands of men and women to occupy various political offices at both the Federal and State levels, for four years thereafter.
Ordinarily, this political ritual should hardly call for any disruption in the daily living of the people of this country. Put differently, the election of men and women who voluntarily gave themselves up to do public service, should be the least of our distractions as a nation.
Indeed, April 2011 should pass as another political and civil obligation routine conducted in strict obedience to our civil obligation to the nation and total adherence to the constitutional provisions.
Unfortunately, this is not exactly so because Nigeria’s democracy has been described as an evolving experience and most of the people who are supposed to serve in it have hardly made the process of electing public office holders as exciting as it should be. Thus, 2011 in the minds of Nigerians is another year of fears and threats of continued nationhood.
Painfully, what in the wisdom of the founding fathers of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a soothing balm to an implausible mistake of our immediate past is once more being exploited for selfish gains of a few politicians.
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