PDP is dead in Northern Nigeria, Retired officers, others declare

By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor

The restrategising and realigning currently ongoing within the newly recovered opposition and former ruling party notwithstanding, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is dead in the Northern part of Nigeria. This is the current conclusion of most notable figures in the Arewa Land of Nigeria.

They are saying that the PDP could not have looted them wickedly as a nation and state-managed the bombing of their people and economy and still come back to want to have their mandate, which they said was glaring they had “plotted devilishly” to have, immediately after they handed over power to the Muhammadu Buhari-led Administration on May 29, 2015.

A retired Air Force Officer, who has been of assistance to the sitting government in some of its loots recovery efforts, said in a message to The DEFENDER that it was impossible to have PDP back in power no matter how perfect they could become in manufacturing of falsehood and dangerous hates against the Buhari’s APC Federal Government.

His message read in part: “PDP is dead in the Northern part of this country. Looting and killing us with state-managed bombing…(now they want to come back? No way).”

The DEFENDER also gathered from a section of Kano State political public that PDP is as good as dead in the North.

Corroborating their claim, the immediate past Governor of Jigawa State, who recently wrote to his party, PDP, informing it of his intention to contest for the 2019 presidency, Alhaji Sule Lamido, was only in the last 24 hours said to have switched word saying President Muhammadu Buhari will have the mandate of Nigerians if he contests in 2019.

The Northern part of Nigeria, no doubt, is the political headquarters of the country. What that part of the country decides politically influences others.

It is the main reason elements, envious of the North’s strong and hard-to-be-desmystified political control over itself and the rest regions of Nigeria, agitate under the disguise of marginalisation.  They believe that political dominance of the North can only be checked when they destroy themselves thinking they are destroying the economy cash cow of the country (oil) and thereby weakening the powers of the North thought to be funded by that economy cash cow.

To them, their marginalisation question can be answered only through either secession or restructuring, which has always failed because, like most people even in the other regions agree, the reason for which they agitate is not based on sincerity and national interest but based on ethnicity and self-centeredness on the part of some individuals in the region.

A respondent said: “That is why this country will continue to remain stronger as a united entity because I do know that the strength if even the mighty enemies of Nigerian national unity is perpetually weakened by their insincerity and unpatriotic tendencies.

“Okay, now, this another reason for you to know that North has always been the mover of motion for and vehicle that drives Change in this country. They may look for collaborators in the West or East, but the truth remains that if the North don’t move for seriousness in the business of government, no other region has ever done. All we see is agitation. Which serious people desirous of positive Change agitate senselessly?”

On Northern cry of marginalisation during Goodluck Jonathan era he said: “What happened was not agitation. You will never see North agitate but they made it clear to Jonathan that he marginalised them. When he sacked one Hausa man, he replaced him with an Igbo.  For what reason would North agitate, when they knew and were quite sure that, no matter what, whoever has deceived them into supporting him to become President will always have another time to come back. Jonathan deceived the North into supporting his presidency even against their own interest being that Yar’dua died two years into expected eight years of North in government, after Olusegun Obasanjo, a South West person, had successfully his own. Jonathan made himself available when he was morally, and according to gentleman agreement, not supposed to be. Even at that, the North supported him.

“What did the North get in return from PDP under him, Jonathan, marginalisation and empowered Boko Haram. And you can see that in how it was obviously and severally also reported that those who were sponsoring and supplying food and weapons to Boko Haram terrorists were members of Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP Government. Don’t forget that Admiral Murtala Nyako, whether he truly did or not, became a customer of EFCC because he dared to cry out over his shock at personally witnessing how under the government of Jonathan, military helicopter was supplying weapons to Boko Haram only for him to be shot at when he tried to move near, himself moved by the confidence of being a fearless fine officer (retired) of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

“What is worse? Despite the obvious as revealed by General AndrewAzazi that members of Boko Haram terrorist group were in Jonathan government, the then President Jonathan, his religious group championed by Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and region (Igbo and Niger Delta) created and staged a very dangerous offensive against the North and the entire Muslims in the country. Even Muslims in Yoruba Land suffered from same stigma. They were loud and clear in their claim that Boko Haram was created by the North to make governance difficult for the Ijaw man in power. That was how worse it was to have ever trusted an Igbo or Ijaw man that Jonathan openly and officially projected himself to be in power with the Presidency of this country. Did Obasanjo make himself a Yoruba President when he was there? Did he make himself a Christian President? I leavevthecredt to you and other well meaning Nigerians to deduce.

“It was that bad and for the first time, under PDP and Jonathan, Igbo, much underdeveloped infrastructurally that they were under the dispensation, and Ijaw were the only happy region in Nigeria that was not complaining for the six years that Jonathan-led PDP government thickly supported by the North ruled. And on top of all that along with their self-made theory of Islamisation Agenda, they not only made Muslims so much hated and stigmatised having been tagged Boko Haram even as far as Yoruba Land, but also, they looted us raw and still bombed what was left of national wealth into recession simply President Buhari that ousted them from power asked them questions about their stewardship in government.” He said.

Now so highly infuriated he asked, “Are those the same PDP now saying they to come back to rule us? Well, I will not say it is impossible because if left to my people alone in the South of Nigeria, PDP will come back easily because this is where we appear, from the way we support and quickly believe the fake cries of dictatorship by the looters, as media, lawyers and even masses, to have concluded on our deal with corruotion as a way of life.” He said.

From his last statement, he was corroborated with by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osunbajo, who recently lamented that some Nigerians were supporting corrupt people because they had embraced corruption as a lifestyle.

The respondent however delighted in the consolation that once the North moves against anything so be it. “And now that the North has concluded that there will be no way for PDP in 2019 and a PDP Aspirant Sule Lamido has said Buhari will have the mandate of the people in 2019, I have confidence that this county will not return to the hands of looters 2019 and beyond.” He said.