Nigeria: 'Ogbulafor'll Transform Party Politics' - AllAfrica.com

Ndubuisi UgahLagos

National President of the Vincent Ogbulafor's Enterprise for Change and Equity (Voice 2007), Head Kris Keme have said that the finding of the Ogbulafor-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leading to change the human face of political political party political relation and administration in Nigeria.

In a fourth estate conference in Lagos, Keme said internal democracy have suffered a fatal blow in the PDP, promising that Ogbulafor would reconstruct internal democracy within the PDP and the state by ensuring hard-and-fast observation to democratic dogmas no substance whose ox is gored in the running play of the party and the country.

Describing Ogbulafor as one of those that contributed to the enlargement of the party's electoral luck from 21 to 28 states in the 2003 elections during his term of office as secretary, Keme said he could vouch for Ogbulafor because he cognizes his ability.

"I have got a batch of regard for Ogbulafor. He is an illustrious boy of the South-east and an complete politician in the sense that he have been a minister. He have also been the national secretary of the party. He cognizes where the political political party have gone incorrect in the past and those things that plunged the party into crisis. He is not a stooge, errand male child or personal helper to any body. He is working for the good of the political party and the Nigerian State.

"The 60 old age thing is what his disparagers are catching on. There are other impressive remarks he made. He told them to co-operate with the governors and halt this political relation of unneeded impeachment.

He promised to put up commissions in different states that volition reappraisal the activities and the advancement made in the states. He also urged them to work with the governors and guarantee advancement in the state", he said.

Condemning those who twined the chairman's position of PDP staying in powerfulness for 60 old age out of context, Keme said the desire of the president is not to turn Federal Republic Of Nigeria into a 1 political party state or PDP ascendant the political phase through rigging, godfatherism and

violence, but to intrench democratic inclinations in PDP and the nation.

"Ogbulafor understands the crises the Nigerian state is going through and have promised that these jobs will be addressed. There will be a new direction, peace in PDP and development in the country. The seven point docket of President Umaru Genus Musa Yar'Adua volition be followed meticulously and all those that looted

Nigeria through contracts and other agency will be brought to book."

On how Ogbulafor emerged, Keme said the convention was conducted like a household affair.

"It is a new beginning for the party, with the possibility of a new chance for the party. We should be satisfied with it because most people didn't cognize that the convention will take place, considering the series of postponements, menaces of legal action

and all sorts of baleful marks in the air. The fact that the convention held at all, we should give thanks God. So, for me, it is "thank you" to Supreme Being for PDP and Ogbulafor.

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Describing as wrong the innuendoes that the President handpicked Ogbulafor as the president of the party, Keme said the desire to salvage the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from serious division informed the spirited move by PDP governors to back Prince Vincent Ogbulafor for the national chairmanship

position.

"Looking at the manner the political campaigns were going, the governors, felt that if any of those two campaigners emerged, there was the possibility of that dividing the party. There was this position that they should travel away from those two people and happen a neutral person. And it was also felt that they should look for person who have some experience in political party disposal at high level. Out of 27 PDP states, 25 took the determination to travel for Ogbulafor. "Only Ebonyi governor, Head St Martin Elechi, opposed the move while another state governor was absent at the meeting," he said.