• Written by: African Politics
• May 28, 2014

by patrick nwabia

The political crisis in the PDP (people’s Democratic Party) and almost every other political party in Nigeria including the newly formed APC (all progressive congress) is purely as a result of the lack of the knowledge and wisdom of God almighty. The holy bible in the book of Isaiah chapter 5 vs. 13 & 14 explains. The obvious implication of these ongoing political crises with its root in the parties, drawing from the centrifugal ethnocentric forces, if not carefully managed would certainly breed anarchy, economic stagnation and social strive that may consume some of the actors and gladiators, not excluding the ordinary poor masses of the country..
Fortunately however the Nigerian state for the first time in a very longtime is privileged to have a gentle man, humble, calmed, and well educated and in my humble opinion a God fearing president in the person of Good luck Ebele Jonathan (GCFR). This is a political power holding phenomenon that is been missing in the political power equation in the country’s body politics since after her political independent era that saw the emergence of great leaders like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe(ZIK OF ARICA), Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Sir Ahmmedu Bello.
I hold the above view about President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in respect to the way and manner he had handled what I called the various artificially created political and social crisis that had prevailed so far since the inception of this current administration led by him, without an unnecessary show or abusive use of political and constitutional powers which he has in abundance by the design and structure of the body politics subject to the provisions of the 1999 constitution. More so with his ethnic background as an Ijaw man, a minority ethnic group from the south-south region of the country, with a concentration of other minority ethnic groups all together in these domains lay the nation’s natural capital wealth, the crude oil natural resources thus the economic mainstay of the Nigerian economy. I strongly believe that the current leadership of APC (all progressive congress) is not ignorant of these superlative qualities of President Jonathan and in consideration of the fact that there is a high political awareness amongst Nigerians today, to understand the fact that either APC or PDP they are all same old wine we use to know. The difference here lies in the fact that one (APC) is now in a new bottle with a new style and packaging. It wouldn’t be surprising to know therefore that the APC leadership is in an underground political plan to catch on an error management of the current PDP crisis, ready to welcome Mr. President to the party as their presidential candidate come 2015 general election as a strategic move to take power from the ruling party.PDP. And expectedly use their very active and ever vibrant political actors and machineries in both upper and the lower chambers of the national assembly to protect Mr. President against any possible impeachment threat. After all even though the PDP constitutes the majority membership and representation in the HOUSES, majority of the most active and vibrant amongst them are from the opposition party. This explains why the leadership of the both houses had not been firmly in charge and control of most political issues as well as very important bills that are presented on the floor of both houses for deliberations and consideration, these few but very active and vibrant minority opposition in their unique strategic move, had always hijacked, manipulated the proceedings and outcomes of these bills and or political issues to suit their party wills and wishes often times in a very controversial manner. Some of these issues include the Rivers State political Crisis, The controversial early child marriage bill, the petroleum subsidy removal and some other issues that every close watcher of the activities in the house would attest to.
More So from a political economy point of view subject to the recent accord and united stance evidenced in the open declaration of support for their son president Good luck Jonathan by the various ethnic groups, pressure groups, and significantly the militant groups and their various leaders from the south-south region considering their economic relevance and indispensability of the region and by extension the inhabitants whom I refer to as the custodians of the chicken that lays the golden national egg, the nation’s natural capital wealth, The root source of empowerment subject to the money bag politics that has obviously become a norm. this is in view of the fact that virtually all major political actors and gladiators in the country had in one way or the other either as a former leader or as an aid or agent of a sort to the former leaders had primitively acquired and converted an accumulated national wealth into their private wealth using various corrupt social mechanism and machineries’ such as the now politically relevant and dreaded militant groups and their leader, whom by the above explained corrupt system had been ironically empowered to distort or even completely stop the flow of these corrupt and ill gotten wealth, that obviously is the main source and tool of political control and manipulations.
In case this is not very clear to you, on the 9th of September 2013 on a local TV station in Lagos, one of the renowned Niger-delta activist, an ex-militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo threatened in a very strong words that there be “blood shard” if president Good luck Jonathan (GCFR) is not re-elected in 2015 forth coming general election. This was in response to a statement credited to the former military head of state RTD ARMY GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari, who in his statement declared that 2015 would be bloody if the results from the election do not favour him and his political party the CPC (congress for progressive change).I am very sure Gen Mohamadu Buhari (rtd) is already regretting that statement credited to him in view of its negative impact on the prospecting electoral fortune for any political party that he is involved in, in the entire south-south region(Niger-Delter). The lobby movement with rally by the APC leadership led by Senator Ahamed Bola Tinubu, to get the 7 (seven) aggrieved governors of PDP to join APC with particular emphasis on Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amechi is part of a strategic move to balance political equations subject to the effects of Gen Buhari”s undemocratic statement on the social-psych of the people of south-south in view of the acquisition and merger arrangement that involves Gen Buhari”s CPC and Senator Bola Tinubu”s ACN that constitutes what we know as APC today.
However Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amechi right from his days as the speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly is been known for his smart political calculations and relatively amidst the ragging political crisis that has him and a minister under president Jonathan from his State, the wife of the president Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan was once quoted in the media saying that both Governor Amechi and the minister from Rivers state are both her Sons. More so recently in a political rally by the APC leaders in port-Harcourt Rivers State, organized to beg him to consider joining the party, in view of my earlier sub mission on the factors of Nigeria economic determinism and the indispensability of the south-south region in the political equation theory of the country, Governor Amechi openly and publicly replied that he would have to consult his boss the president and significantly in that same occasion he emphasized his ethno-regional affiliations/bond with his brother from another mother President Good luck Ebele Jonathan. After all in the game of politics there are neither permanent friends nor permanent enemy rather it’s all about permanent interest
I foresee a democratic youth movements in Nigeria prior to 2015 general elections it going to be an ideological socio-political movement predicated on democratic value orientation, a unique platform to present to the Nigerian youths worldwide the ideals of a true Nigerian project by the Nigerian youths themselves ignited by the current national socio-psych which is subject to the leadership style and Bureaucratic value orientation of president Good luck Ebele Jonathan. I have no doubt in my mind therefore that with the present true democratic value orientation in the country initialized by Jonathan’s administration, which some folks in their ignorance misconceive as weaklings, Nigerian youths would not lose sight of the innate pride in the potentialities and greatness in the candidature of this humble and well educated man from the south-south region of the country for re-election in 2015 as a capable and competent manager for the Nigerian political-economy project. This is in view of the fact that the Nigerian political project requires a leader with a good knowledge of the country’s socio-political equilibrium, a leader that can conceptualize and boldly initiate a very good policy, a leader that has the intellectual capacity to employ and deploy for good governance, the right human capital resources from the abundance of the nations human capital wealth, a leader with a very good diplomatic skill to challenge the system by “abnormalizing the normalized abnormalities” in the entire polity, for a better Nigerian society that can be equated with modern civilized society as in Europe and America. No need to over emphasize the fact that Mr. President Good luck Jonathan in his humble character has got it all. Nigerians shouldn’t forget so easily the popular Holy Bible saying that a nation perishes for first lack of knowledge and secondly and more importantly lack of vision… God Bless Nigeria.