OLU IBEKWE

Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has written to members of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, informing them of his decision to fly the party’s flag for the 2019 presidential election. Lamido in a letter to all PDP members across the country said the party needs to reposition the country but must first re-take power in 2019. Lamido lamented that the nation has departed from the dreams of its founding fathers. He wrote, “Today, 57 years after the independence of our dear country, can we in all sincerity claim to have achieved the dream of our founding fathers? Where did we fail and from where did we begin to fail? Nigeria with its natural endowment and human capacity cannot be forgiven for being otherwise. “We cannot even demonstrate our ability and capacity to meet domestic, regional and global challenges which currently seems to overwhelm us.” “The PDP will and must lead the nation back into a bright, progressive, and innovative future,” Lamid...

ON 21 st October, 2017. PROTOCOLS: THE TRUE POSITION OF STATE LEADERSHIP OF PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) IMO STATE CHAPTER. 0.1 We are not unmindful of the expectation of residents of Imo State who have so far endured over six (6) years of misgovernance under the Okorocha Administration, that our Great Party The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State ought to put her house in order quickly so as to win the 2019 gubernatorial and other elections in Imo State to salvage the situation in our beloved Imo State and truly provide the dividends of Democracy. We must also caution that the plethora of intra party disputes is not an exclusive preserve of our Great Party but is prevalent in all political parties in Nigeria even the newly registered ones that have not participated in elections before and as it were “have nothing to share” . It may well be that our nascent democracy is still passing through some teething problems as we progress in efforts to achieve a tr...