PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) BURUTU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA EXECUTIVE – MATTERS ARISING



“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: 

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. 
- I shall fear only God. 
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. 
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. 
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi 
PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) BURUTU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA EXECUTIVE – MATTERS ARISING
10th March, 2012, members of The Peoples Democratic Party in Burutu Local Government Area had a very Peaceful, free and fair congress with Segbegha Korokorosei emerging as Chairman of the Exco at the Council Area.
However, as it has been in recent times and as far as interest groups go, some members of the Party who are highly placed in and outside Government and would have preferred an imposed candidate as against the display of true Democracy at the council area went on to delay the inauguration of the Executive. Not satisfied with the Delay, the usurpers went on to do the abominable and swear in persons who never took part in the said Congress and wait for it on a National Holiday as an affront to the very existence of our Country and all lovers of Democracy on 1st October, 2012.


A firm believer in the Rule of Law and a democrat to the core Sagbegha Korokorosei took the matter to Court and after Months of Legal Tussle on 5th March, 2014 The Honourable Justice M. Shitu Abubakar of The Federal High Court in The Warri Judicial Division gave a landmark Judgment granting all 11 reliefs sought by the Plaintiff Sagbegha Korokorosei.
The Learned Judge went on to give a Judgment Order directing the IMMEDIATE swearing in or to administer the oath of office on the Plaintiff Sagbegha Korokorosei. 79 days after the Landmark Judgment Sagbegha Korokorosei is yet to be recognized as the duly elected Chairman of The Peoples Democratic Party in and for Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.
We are bringing the issue to public discourse because as Martin Luther King Jr. noted “Injustice anywhere is a Threat to Justice everywhere” we have the power to prevail on those at the helm of affairs in The Peoples Democratic Party at the National and State levels to do the right thing.
It was Elie Wiesel who remarked that “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent Injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest” we must collectively raise our voice against this Injustice. As Benjamin Franklin said “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are outraged as those who are” Ella Wheeler Wilcox puts it succinctly “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men”
Injustice is Injustice. “Where Justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe” ~ Fredrick Douglas

Join the Crusade The Rule of Law Must Prevail in The PDP Burutu Local Government Area.

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