Daily Trust (Abuja)
15 November 2008
From a band of 34 odd politicians, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged as a broad based party that will foster democracy but a meddling president, aided by a pliant and colluding national party executive, imposed lack of internal democracy on the party whose building blocks was the opposition of military dictatorship.
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Yes, indeed, what is there to celebrate when a party with overwhelming majority in both the NASS and states govts that could not use its dominant numbers to ply thru pro-poor agenda. Even the President's 7-point agenda is totally dead in the water. I blame the President for acquiescing to the opposition that his own election was flawed until tha Supreme Court told him otherwise, thereby allowing the minority to hi-jack his mandate. The other blame is his lack of vision to keep a select group of technocrats to man key ministries necessary for economic growth instead of patronage appointments of corrupt politicians as ministers and wasting 18 months and monies that could have been used for infrastructural development and to build schools and hospitals but wasted on paying salaries of over-bloated bureaucracy. The greatest failure of Nigeria is not approving OBJ's 3rd term. I dont see how Nigeria can ever recover from that error. But good luck, anyway.