X-Raying PDP @ 14
One of the main arguments for supporting Jonathan by some people in the 2011 general elections was their belief that the man’s ideology is different from that of his party – the PDP. The self acclaimed biggest party in Africa was a bastion of hope for most Nigerians in 1998 due to caliber of its founding fathers – the late Pa Sunday Awoniyi, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Dr. Suleiman Kumo, Mallam Adamu Chiroma Solomon Lar, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi and other prominent Nigerians. However, some few years after its ascendance to power, the political party under Obasanjo turned into a monster of a sort. The founding fathers of the party became its first victims. PDP’s rule turned out to be generally a disaster – characterized by lack of internal democracy, violation of rule of law, corruption, open stealing of public funds, electoral malpractices and violence, rigging and short changing electorates will. Most Nigerians then believed that our socio-economic problems were essentially brought by o...