It is a fallacy and major error for any non-card carrying member of the society, ethnic unions,
socio-cultural organizations and traditional institutions to arrogate to
themselves any serious role in the nomination of political parties’ candidates
for general elections.
A political party is an organised group of people
with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to
influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office.
The action of some groups across the State in the last few months that
are trying to bully, blackmail and issue threats of sanction on party members
over choice of party candidates is unwarranted meddling and interference in the
internal affairs of political parties.
A few weeks ago, it was the Urhobo Progress Union that threatened
the political parties of vote boycott if an ethnic member is not nominated for
the office of governor.
Lately, Anioma Congress, another group of Anioma citizens went to
Abuja on a needless and fruitless jamboree put together by an Anioma governorship
candidate to submit a list of supposedly shortlisted aspirants for the
governorship nomination of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The group was
manipulated to Abuja by a tourism and hospitality undertaker, a former Clerk of
the State Assembly, whose only interest is in making money at the expense of
the Anioma Agenda 2015.
The former Clerk of the House is railroading supposedly educated but
gullible Anioma prominent personalities including some of our first class
traditional rulers on these types of ridiculous journeys. It is funny how such
an assemblage of non-card carrying members of the party wants to decide for the
party who its candidate should be. This is most demeaning and leaves much to be
desired. The group’s intent is to impose a governorship candidate on the
PDP.
Deltans are a proud people who have values that we hold sacred. We
believe in due process and firmly stand that nobody but the people of Delta State
can choose the next governor of Delta State. Crawling to Aso Rock to try
to use undemocratic means to acquire power through the back door, is to say the
least, detestable. As elders, they seem not to have learnt that having a
governor from your region does not translate into development for your region.
What they should be advocating is cooperation among the various ethnic groups
that make up Delta State so that we can produce a credible candidate that will win
the general election for our great party.
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