With
the Bayelsa State governorship poll fast approaching, MIKE ODIEGWU
writes that the Peoples Democratic Party’s chances in the election are
dimmed by its unresolved crisis
Fear has enveloped the Peoples
Democratic Party less than three weeks to the February 11 governorship
election in Bayelsa State. People are worried that the internal crisis
rocking the party has yet to be resolved despite the proximity of the
election.
Most times, intra-party disagreements no
matter its intensity, are resolved by stakeholders to create a more
dynamic and stronger bond of unity before facing opponents in a
political contest.
But the PDP has allowed its wound to
turn into gangrene. The party is in tatters. There is no end in sight to
the wrangling which started with the disqualification of Governor
Timipre Sylva from contesting the party’s primary. While the governor’s
camp has remained aggrieved fighting against what it believed was
injustice, the national leadership of PDP has maintained a posture that
the party will win the election with or without Sylva and his loyalists.
Pundits believe that the body language
of the party’s national leadership may affect the fortunes of the PDP in
the election. Already, signs that all is not well have emerged.
Governors elected under the banner of the party boycotted the party’s
inauguration of its national campaign committee for the election.
Other prominent constituents of the
committee such as members of the National Assembly from the South-South
and ministers from the zone shunned the event, which took place at the
party’s secretariat on Thursday. Even the Senate President David Mark
and former President Olusegun Obasanjo stayed away from the event which
was also aimed at formally presenting the party’s anointed candidate,
Mr. Seriake Dickson, to the committee.
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