OGBULAFOR DUE CHANGE BUT.....

Sir,

OGBULAFOR DUE CHANGE BUT.....

Contained in the front page of Compass newspaper April 12, 2010 was a story that a plot by Obasanjo and Andy Uba is being hatched towards the removal of Vincent Ogbulafor as the PDP national Chairman. Removing Ogbulafor from his present position is no more news because from the media, he has remained so controversial and any party worth its salt should know when to act and I believe many PDP chieftains are in agreement with this.

But the way Obasanjo is going about it, is not right. He is trying to ensure that his (earlier failed) candidate for the position and who was later consoled with a ministerial appointment, Dr Sam Egwu, takes over from Ogbulafor. Many party members would resist this in order to call off the bluff of Obasanjo who most still see as a dictator. Ogbulafor was cropped up by mostly PDP governors and his campaign was reportedly substantially bankrolled by Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State.

The former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim was in the process forced out of the race by Obasanjo and others. If there should be proper election towards that again and Egwu is presented, Anyim would still beat them all. The right thing PDP members should do now is to ensure that proper election was conducted for the right PDP National Working Committee members to emerge. With that in place, people would start reckoning with PDP as a party that possesses the needed internal democracy because it is only when you have succeeded internally that you can export such to the larger Nigeria.

Obasanjo though still welds substantial power as the party’s BoT Chairman and this it should be recalled made him able to single-handedly picked some of the Ministers in the acting President Jonathan’s cabinet.   

Obi Nede-Nuhu, 405 Ikorodu Road, Lagos.