A CASE OF TWO PDP IN NIGERIA


PDP BURUTU LEADERSHIP IMPASSE – NEED FOR URGENT RESOLUTION

I must have read the Press Statement released by the PDP National Publicity Secretary Chief Oliseh Metuh a thousand times and can’t help but imagine if we have Two People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria?

Chief Metuh said “credit must be given to President Jonathan for his insistence on free, fair and credible election at all levels …………..” Charity they say begins at Home, 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 another candidate for reasons best known to them, decided to have candidates who did not even took part in the Congress and went ahead to Swear in Kenneth Ogbeibiri 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 In SUIT NO.: FHC/WR/CS/189/2013 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.

It’s been four Months since that Landmark Judgment was delivered; 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. Perhaps President Jonathan’s insistence on free, fair and credible election at all levels did not include Burutu local Government Area

We have kept this issue in the public discourse because as Martin Luther King Jr. noted “Injustice anywhere is a Threat to Justice everywhere” the media has the power to influence Government Policies, we can 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

The statement said Governor Fayemi “exhibited the spirit of sportsmanship propagated and practiced by the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan” even as it called on politicians in the country to “imbibe the same spirit and jettison all forms of bad loser syndrome especially ahead of the 2015 general elections.”
This is an advice that Kenneth Ogbeibiri and those backing him to walk the path of Impunity need to heed.
Join the Crusade The Rule of Law Must Prevail in The PDP Burutu Local Government Area.

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