Aare Dele Momodu, globally renowned journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine International is a notable chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one of the party’s presidential aspirants during its last primaries. In an open letter directed to members of PDP and made available to Theliberationnews, he admonished the leadership of the party to apply the pedal of wisdom.
Doing this, according to the veteran journalist, is the only way to avert electoral catastrophe for the party in the upcoming 2023 general elections. He calls on Atiku Abubakar, Iyorchia Ayu and Nyesome Wike that are presidential candidate, national chairman of the party and governor of Rivers state under the party’s umbrella respectively to sheath their swords of looming political perdition by embracing amity alongside their supporters.
Theliberationnews presents, verbatim, the full text of the letter written by the man that goes by the sobriquet, Bob Dee, for readers attention and reflection.
A LETTER TO PDP MEMBERS
My dear party members, good morning.
I woke up thinking about the sad and unfortunate crisis rocking our party. I’m wondering if we’ve not been victims of mass hypnotism. Someone needs to wake us up from this state of somnambulism.
Months after we concluded our Presidential primary, we are still busy fighting and calling ourselves unprintable names, thus forgetting that, once upon a time, we were friends, with shared dreams and aspirations. We all looked forward to how our party would dislodge the APC behemoth that deceived Nigerians with highfalutin promises but failed spectacularly on delivery.
Agreed, costly mistakes were made in our party Presidential primary, some of them avoidable, but we cannot continue to dwell on it, lest we throw the baby away with the bathwater.
Now that we’ve narrowed the principal actors to our National Chairman, Governor Nyesom Wike and our Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, I wish to appeal once again to them to urgently rise above this war of attrition for the sake of long-suffering Nigerians who need our attention desperately. PDP is the oldest party in Nigeria, since 1999, with the requisite experience to tap into in order to reverse our perfidious descent into anarchy.
I salute the courage of Governor Wike in boldly and vociferously letting the world know what went wrong and what should be done moving forward. He should please sheath his sword and allow party machinery fix the rest. I also appeal to our party elders to resist making inflammatory statements that may further escalate the crisis.
Truth is, we can, and should, defeat APC spectacularly in the next election and hopefully form a Government of National Unity in 2023, as suggested by our candidate. Let’s not destroy this opportunity with our own hands.
Nigerians are waiting to see the practical presentations and demonstrations of our manifesto. Majority of the other candidates and members of their parties were at different times members of our party PDP. For every finger they point at us, four others will point back at them.
Time has come for our party to retake the victory and regain the glory.
