There seem to be some serious problem concerning party leadership in the PDP camp. I guess we'll find who is really in charge at the party's convention when it finally takes place.
Check out this Report from www.tribune.com
Indications have emerged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have stopped the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to fulfill the requirement of due process, but to assist some forces with enough time to re-strategise, with the aim of regaining the control of the party.
The beneficiary of the arrangement appears to be the camp of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, which suffered massive political blow when the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Etteh was sacked.
The group, which reportedly has Obasanjo, the national chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali and the deputy national chairman, South, Chief Olabode George, as the main leaders, was said to have withdrawn to the drawing board for fresh relevance strategy, after the public declaration by the leader of the Integrity Group in the House of Representatives, Hon. Farouk Lawan, that the group was set to wrestle the control of the party from Obasanjo and his men.
Contrary to claims that Obasanjo and his men in the party were antagonistic to the emergence of the new Speaker, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, sources in the party claimed that Obasanjo and his henchmen in the party’s top hierarchy, had, while routing for Bankole covertly, used their perceived support for Hon. Jolaoye from Osun, to test the numerical strength of the emerging power centre in the party under the aegis of the Integrity Group.
The strategy, according to a party source, who also has military background, is used in the military to test the might of an opponent by firing in the wrong direction, in order to allow your opponent to reply so that you can know where he is attacking from.
Farouk, had, in an interview with some national newspapers, said that his group that got rid of Etteh who is from Obasanjo’s camp, would move against the former president’s camp at the national convention earlier scheduled for December 8, 2007.
When asked if the current leadership of the party was firmly in the control of Obasanjo, albeit Ali and George, Lawan noted that the leadership had become a toothless bulldog because its’ days were numbered.
Sunday Tribune gathered that at that stage, Obasanjo and his henchmen resolved to take control of the party at all cost and get their people into the leadership that would succeed Ali’s executive, given their conviction that President Umaru Yar’Adua is not showing enough interest in their group’s political interest.
Reports that the president’s men were more disposed to getting Obasanjo out of the way and the alleged tacit support for the agenda by Yar’Adua, were said to have driven home more the urgency in the re-strategising move.
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