The 2023 general election is around the corner. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is one of those political parties aiming to mount the country’s seat of power. This political party believes they can make it in 2023, owing to their experience in the Nigerian political space.
But here, we would do what we are good at, to analyze and criticize. Our aim is to ensure the best candidate emerges in 2023. And We have no issues whatsoever anyone has about this. The truth must be served.
Without wasting time, here could be the top 10 Classic Reasons why you would never want to vote for PDP in the forthcoming election out of the numerous reasons many Nigerians may have in mind.
1). Choice of Candidate:
Right now in the country, it should be understandable that political parties no longer matter anymore, because they are all the same circle of political leaders we are recycling.
However, the PDP was not considerate while selecting a candidate for Nigeria. They were all about doing the how-to-win game in 2023, rather than presenting a better candidate. The same thing goes for APC. For me, it was all about a few persons selecting for Nigerian in the primary election for both political parties, you called them “Party Delegates” but I called them “Money Delegates”. Because the highest bidder makes it out to the big stage.
A candidate and his team make up the administration rather than the party. For instance, Nyeson Wike’s team is quite different from Tambuwa’s team as much as Atiku’s team despite being in the same political party. Therefore, when you vote for a certain candidate, you’ve also voted for his team.
The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party isn’t anywhere close to the kind of candidate or team Nigeria needs in 2023. Indirectly, you are voting for the 1999 administration back in 2023. This could be disastrous to Nigeria’s democracy.
Alright, in case you want to argue with this fact. Ask yourself what Nigeria truly needs in 2023. In 2023, Nigeria needs transparent leadership, accountability, and strategic leadership – capable of setting developmental reforms – a man with the SOLUTION – who has painted to Nigerians the future they crave. Someone free from traces of corruption.
Then ask yourself; if the candidate of the PDP has all these workforce that suit Nigeria’s demand. If we wouldn’t deceive ourselves, you and I know, this candidate doesn’t have these characteristics, but we are hellbent on supporting him because of personal benefits, political affiliation, and ethnicity. Which has been the major problem we have in repositioning the country.
2). Equity and Fairness:
Equity and Fairness are great tools in uniting Nigeria. Currently, if anyone is calling for unity must be painstakingly talking about power going the south and to a political zone that has not tested it before.
Thus, to unite the nation, it’s only reasonable to look out for a candidate in the southern part of the country in other to balance up and give every political zone that sense of belonging.
Yes, it isn’t constitutional to rotate power. But it’s morally right to do so for the sake of national unity. And the question is: if the southern part of the country decides to hold on to power after 8 years just like the north is trying to do, will the north accept?
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3). Unification Of Nigeria
When you decide not to vote for the PDP in the next general election, you are indirectly unifying the country.
Break it down: Nigeria is a multi-ethnic nation and all parties are charged with the responsibility of uniting the country despite the cultural differences. Not voting for PDP in 2023 will reduce power-intoxicated Fulani herdsmen ravaging villages, farmlands, and highways in some parts of the country. Remember he has the same ethnicity as that of the current president, and you know nothing will change.
Most people had called the PDP candidate a Unifier. But a unifier will stick to justifying the rotational system of power in the country in other to uphold what he stands for. Maybe, the word “Unifier” should be a mere political one.
4). What he intends to do
Right from when he was the vice president of the country, he has always called for privatization and nothing else.
Logically, privatization isn’t all about it, but the corruption behind it. They would gladly sell Nigeria to themselves if they came on board. Remember NEPA changed to PHCN and you know the remaining story.
This isn’t the kind of leadership we need. It wouldn’t solve the country’s problem. 2023 should be all about strategic leadership capable of stirring every area of the country that needs to be stirred. And not steadily clamoring for privatization as if they lie our problem. Such a leader emphasizing this keyword, “Privatization” isn’t fair to Nigerians or acting strategically in his quest to solve key issues in the country.
5). Arguable Source of Wealth
“A man’s source of wealth is a reflection of his true identity.” What he believes and what he stands for. If the wealth is questionable, the character is also questionable.
In 2023, Nigeria needs a transparent leader and not someone associated with one money laundering scandal or the other. You and I know that the candidate of the PDP is one of the bad guys associated with money laundering in the country, in case you have forgotten.
However, if you still doubt this reason, meet former president Olusegun Obasanjo to break down what his former vice president was.
In fact, ask Obasanjo to campaign for him and hear him vomit the bitter file of who the PDP candidate is.
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6). Passed Experience
Nigerians had a rough ride with the People’s Democratic Party for 16 years brought in the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2015.
Voting PDP in 2023 could be trying to peel off our old wounds when the current ones have not been healed.
PDP wouldn’t do anything extraordinary when voted back to power. Thus, you will find them blaming the APC for squandering Nigeria’s resources for 8years. Just like APC is blaming PDP’s 16 years in power. Because they are all the same recycling 1999 political leaders.
7). Recycling the Old Corrupted politicians again in the 2023 General Election
Voting PDP in 2023 means you and I want to revisit the past leaders who invented corruption in Nigeria. Some of them are waiting patiently for victory in other to refill their pockets after being attacked by EFCC and were squeezed dried by the anti-graft agency in 2015. They have suddenly turned into a roaring lion, laying ambush on Nigeria’s wealth and resources, when they would be declared winner in 2023.
Some caucus members would gladly switch from APC to PDP if PDP emerges. Just the way they switched from PDP to APC after the 2015 general election. Because that’s what they know how to do best.
Yes! You and I can stop these lions and switches and put them to perpetual rest with our PVC, just for the benefit of our unborn children, if not for ourselves.
8). The Role played in the 2015 General Election
If you can remember in 2015, the current candidate of the PDP lifted the hand of current President Buhari as the one to remove Goodluck Jonathan from office.
Together (Including the APC candidate), they installed Buhari as president and brought Nigeria the worst political dispensation of our lives as citizens of Nigeria.
Such a candidate wouldn’t do more than his successors if given the chance to do so. 2023 should just be that payback time for Nigerians to serve them what they truly deserve.
9). The War Rocking PDP
A man who can’t rule over his family and abide by a certain agreement isn’t a fit for Nigerian. How will such unify the country he claimed to be a Unifier?
Inability to unite a “simple” party, how will a “complex” ethnic nation like Nigeria be united under his watch.
Inability to abide by an agreement made in a “simple” political party setting, how will such a man agree to “complex” Nigeria issues hovering on the shoulders of millions of Nigerians after mounting the country’s highest seat? Just ask yourself this question before voting for PDP in 2023.
Sometimes, all these things are little signs about a candidate we Nigerians fail to understand. And when that candidate becomes the president, we begin to cry blood.
10). Nigerians are Endangered
We are all greatly endangered when we allow the same people to recycle themselves over and over.
The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party played a major role in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. What he did should be pivotal in his quest to be president of Nigeria. But he has no tangible basement to build his campaign promises, rather than some campaign bulldogs screaming and tagging him “Unifier”. I had to laugh anyway.
Little wonder why he hasn’t gone to his former boss, Obasanjo, for endorsement just like he has done with another past president of the country.
Dearest Nigerians, I will drop here leaving you with this questions:
“What do we want for Nigerians? Do we want progress or stagnancy or backwardness? How long do we continue to make politics a game, rather than a matter for the future? When are we going to start putting issues of national interest first before religion, tribe, personal interest, and whatsoever?” But before then, we may never make it to the Nigeria we desire.
In 2023, look before you vote.
Peace!