Tuesday, 18 July 2017

Femi Fani Kayode and Bode Geogre arent good enough for PDP now.

Femi Fani-Kayode and Bode George are definitely not the best that the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)  can present for the position of National Chairman of the once biggest party in Africa at this time. The two men just have too much baggage and to carry that into the party which desperately begs for repacking would do more harm than good. Do we not understand how important leadership is? Fani-Kayode is still answering to the courts for cases that bother on corruption, he has also become Nigeria's number one conspiracy theorist on what some dreamers have called "the Islamization of Nigeria". It seems that he has forgotten that there are northern Muslims in his great party, many of whom are frowning at his recent rhetoric.
Bode George does not even have the clout to muster the members of PDP in South West not to talk of being respected nationally in the party. There is brief jail experience that he had over a National Ports Authority case. The performance of PDP in the South West in the last general elections of which he also helped coordinate was a massive failure. Beyond winning Ekiti state which was mainly the effort of Ayo Fayose and Musiliu Obanikoro, PDP has little or no foothold in the South West. Although isolated performance problems in some of the states in the South West like Osun State which is reeling in a debt of salaries and others could turn the voters against the APC.
The PDP desperately needs a newer candidate who can help give it a new face and galvanize people to vote for the party in the next general elections. One thing would work for the main opposition party. The inefficiency and mediocrity of the ruling All Progressives Congress could be a deciding factor in the next elections.
Strangely enough, in spite of all the accusations of kleptomania, theft, embezzlement and misappropriation, many Nigerians have begun to believe that the Goodluck Jonathan led administration which had PDP at the centre was better than what Nigerians are currently witnessing with the APC that promised a change in the way the country would be run. In many elections around the world and even in the one that took place in Nigeria that brought the APC into power, the electorate are known to vote against the arrogance, insensitivity and lackluster performance of a ruling body. That may well take place in Nigeria. The APC have a year to prove it is the better party. Nigerians are watching.

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