There are fears in Abia State that the Peoples Democratic Party may suffer the fate of the All Progressives Congress in 2023 if it jettisons its Charter of Equity, Ugo Aliogo writes
You learn more from defeat than victory. This famous Japanese proverb treasured by Korean marketing wizkids should make lots of sense to the stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State after their thumping triumph in the recent Aba Federal Constituency by-election. There is the temptation to be swept away by the scintillating breeze of Chimaobi Ebisike’s emphatic 10,322 votes over Mascot Uzor Kalu’s 3,674.
While the All Progressives Congress (APC) is licking its wounds from the crushing Aba defeat, PDP has hard lessons to learn from the victory. Hubris, the ultimate destroyer of the Warrior who ignores the source of his strength, awaits PDP unless it avoids pushing the self-destruct button in the manner APC did.
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By Emmanuel Aziken
One popular political tale that swirled around Abuja late in 2006 as President Olusegun Obasanjo prepared his exit after the collapse of the Third Term Agenda, was how he was exacting retribution.
Despite what many believed to have been Chief Anthony Anenih’s overt support for Third Term, for one reason or the other, ‘Mr. Fix It’ became one of the popular targets for the president’s vengeance.
Odion Ugbesia who was well known as Chief Anenih’s first choice for governor of Edo State in 2007 was willy-nilly, edged out as the president settled on his distant in-law, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Partly as a consequence, Osunbor and Anenih were to have a bruising fight that culminated in Comrade Adams Oshiomhole ascending to power in 2008.
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The claim by the electoral commission (INEC) that it will not obey an order of the appeal court, on the de-registration of political parties, because it contradicts another order of the same court, is based on a false premise, PREMIUM TIMES can report following an extensive review of the two judgements.
Last August, the Court of Appeal, in a suit by 31 political parties who had been deregistered by INEC, ruled that the de-registration was null and void because the electoral commission did not follow due process. The court ruled that the deregistered parties be recognised by INEC.
INEC in its reaction said the ruling contradicted an earlier one by the same Court of Appeal and that because of the contradiction, it will not obey the ruling but will wait for the Supreme Court to decide on the matter.