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Osun PDP’s House On Quicksand

Apr 20th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: EDITORIAL

pdp-logoAs the time comes to choose who ever is going to carry the party’s banner, the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party has to face the reality of a house constructed on quicksand.

The foundation of the PDP has always being defective. It’s bound to be. The party has never had a philosophical bent or ideological direction or focus. Put together as an electoral coalition, the only raison detre of the PDP is to obtain power usually through hook or crook. For this reason, the party attracts floatsam and jetsam of all shades and in large measure, dubious types.

The PDP is made up of rent seekers who see politics as the best guarantee for a secure financial future. For this reason, the PDP in Osun State cannot afford to spend one hour out of office. If they spend a day out of office, the party will simply collapse. Without access to political largesse, there will be no reason for the continued existence of the party. This is why for the PDP elections as of necessity have to be ‘do or die’. For there is actually in the state treasury quite a lot to die for. This is why it will be a contradiction in terms for the party to actually administer Osun State sensibly or property.

The only glue cementing the Osun State PDP is money – raw cash. If the source of the money which is the state treasury dries up, there will be a real bust up. To avoid what for them will be a calamitous position, the PDP must ensure that they stay in government at all cost. This is only one part of the equation. The other part is that the coalesation of forces around individuals, means that being in the right faction of the party guarantees access to fatter largesse.

For this reason, the PDP mode of selecting its candidate for the main prize – the governorship will be mired in blood and thunder. It cannot be otherwise for there is simply too much at stake. For the PDP, the treasury of Osun State is meant to service its political jobbers not to uplift the living standards and the prospects of the people. It is precisely the mindset of the Osun State PDP, that has made Osun the laggard amongst all states. Development of the state and its resources takes a backseat to the need to construct a vast patronage system for the PDP.

The assortment of individuals hustling to be the next governor of Osun State in the PDP have one thing in common – they are all anti-people. It cannot be otherwise. Administering properly to the needs of the people will get in the way of building vast corruption induced personal estates. An entourage of political jobbers cannot be maintained let alone kept happy, if you are thinking of the people in terms of the provision of schools, healthcare facilities, jobs, roads and so forth.

For this reason, none of the hustlers have bothered to put together even a perfunctory manifesto. This is in contradistinction to the route taken three years ago by Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, the Action Congress governorship candidate for governor of Osun State . Aregbesola as a progressive with a role model in the Awolowo/Bola Tinubu political axis put on his thinking camp. He constructed a roadmap for the future of Osun State .

Aregbesola had clean constructs and roadmaps on policy thrusts to be pursued in health, education, the reinvigoration of the civil service, the modernization of agriculture and so on. When implemented, the roadmap will transform the superstructure and living standards in Osun State forever. This is why the thieving crowd have so far prevented him from ascending into office. The contrast between Engr. Aregbesola and the thieving crowd in the Osun State PDP is as clear as daylight. The PDP crowd wants office for the purpose of self-aggrandisement, Aregbesola on the other hand wants it for the purpose of using the machinery of government to build a better, more meaningful society. The contrast is stark.

The house built on quicksand by the Osun PDP will dissolve under the weight of its own contradiction. By the end of the PDP selection process, the entire edifice will have collapsed. The various factions will fight themselves to a standstill. The coming internal combustion of the PDP in Osun State will be answered prayers for the long suffering people of Osun State . The people relieved will say in unison – ‘good riddance to bad rubbish.’

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  1. Ade Adeniran April 21st, 2010 12:26 pm :

    PDP will never rule this state again.The party is synonymous to pain and poverty.

  2. Babamatto April 21st, 2010 7:09 pm :

    Ile ti a fi ito mo, eri ni yi o wo. PDP government will soon perish by the special Grace of God. AMEN! AMEN!! AMEN!!

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