4th April, 2013
By Joe Igbokwe
These are indeed troubled times for the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who is now in London hospital to get medical attention for an undisclosed ailment. These are indeed troubled and unpredictable times for the ruling party that has traversed the political landscape for the nearly sixteen years like a bull in a China shop, destroying everything in sight and breaking everything breakable.
It can never be out of place to suggest that the ruling party is putting everything in place to fight the last battle to keep our stolen and conquered patrimony.
In London, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is crying out loud that the opposition is bent on destroying his PDP and asked members to prepare for battle ahead. I guess that the stress and strains occasioned by the deep crisis in PDP is beginning to take its toll on the Chairman. I may not like PDP because the party is synonymous with poverty development but I do not want anything to happen to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. I pray that he will live long to see how Nigeria will be after the demise of PDP in 2015.
For nearly sixteen years, PDP has shown that it is deficit in honour, deficit in integrity, deficit in capacity, deficit in skills required to transform our dear country. Under our very eyes, this party has ruined the future of a promising country, dividing the country in order to remain in power, frittering away our common patrimony with reckless abandon and accepting impunity as a way of life. In 2015, it is either we destroy PDP or PDP will destroy us completely. This is the reason why good men must take a stand in Nigeria come 2015.
A British soldier dying of bullet wounds at the battle of Trafalgar said: “London with all your problems I love thee”. I love Nigeria with all my heart in spite of her teething problems because I know there is nothing wrong with our country, our land, our air, our water, etc. The leaders of Nigeria have failed her in all fronts, in all spheres and in all facets. They have made Nigeria a land without soul, without mind, without eyes, without heart.
I repeat once again that PDP will not go down without a fight. They are ready to sacrifice our hard earned democracy. They can stop at nothing to bring the roof of the house down. The desperate gang will not let go easily. They have to suffer a crushing defeat to let my people go. The signs are there. The plot to destroy the opposition is gathering steam but it will fail.
The task to reclaim Nigeria from PDP is going to be local, national and international campaigns in all fronts. In 2015 everybody must answer his or her father’s name, loud and clear. The slogan is – give us Nigeria or we die because this nation is worth dying for. Yes, this country is worth dying for. Let us sweep PDP and redesign our country for the better.
•Igbokwe, Publicity Secretary, ACN wrote from Lagos.