BEN OGUNTUASE PARTING SHOTS TO PDP BEFORE PORTING TO APC OVER FAYOSES CANDIDATURE But beyond process, the candidate offered is a tragedy to PDP and to Ekiti. Here is a man once impeached, indicted by the courts, still under EFCC cloud, a man with unrepentant rascality. This is a Saul who is claiming to have been converted to Paul without a visit to the Macedonia of redemption and rejuvenation. This is a man about whom so much has been written in the negative. This is a man who left the party, worked against the party in a most virulent and treacherous manner, moved to another party to contest election and lost, now back and had the party handed over to him at the burst of some bullets. Frankly and regrettably, there is no better way for the Abuja Presidency to be contemptuous of Ekiti people and their values than the foisting of Fayose on Ekiti. Of course this is part of the grand strategy for 2015. Now some are preaching the gospel of party loyalty as a reason to accept his candidacy. No, that cannot be valid especially with this acute clash of values and ethics. A line must be drawn by every individual as to what is acceptable. Neither the Abuja Chairman nor the President is a greater stakeholder in the Ekiti project. After their tenure, we are the ones who will be left to carry the glory or the ruins of Ekiti. There is a problem with this Presidency that has clearly but unfortunately become an obsession – the OBJ phobia. It is this obsession that has thrown up Fayose and the emerging PDP arrowheads in the Southwest. It is this obsession, this phobia that is also so glaringly threatening to our future to the extent it debases our values and fully integrates us into the Nigerian theatre of anomy. For these reasons, I cannot continue to remain in a party that has no regard for me, my ethics and values, and my sensibilities. Good bye to PDP! In choosing where to go, I recall the words of the late Sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo who famously said that the worst of civilian democracy is better than the best of a benevolent military dictatorship. In the same token, Fayemi may not be the best, but it is a truism that the worst of Fayemi is still a lot better than the best of Fayose.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:17:56 +0000
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