verge of being appointed the national chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) following the resignation Wednesday by the
former chairman, Adamu Muazu.
Ohakim who was governor of Imo State from May 29, 2007 to May 29,
2011, has been pointed to Midweek Nigerian Horn as being strongly
considered for top job at the PDP Headquarters, Wadata House, Abuja by
top chieftains of the party, who, according to our source, have been
closely monitoring the conduct of the former Imo Chief Executive
toward the party for sometime now.
The source averred that in his capacity as a former governor that has
remained prominently active in the party, Ohakim has retained and
sustained the cordial relationship with some of his former colleagues
in the Governors Forum who now form the crop of the leadership of the
PDP. According to our source, it is this network of friends that is
paving the way for the eventual emergence of Dr. Ikedi Ohakim as the
party's next national chairman.
"Despite some of the alleged slips by the former governor, he is still
very well received in the top hierarchy of the party. Remember, all
the top outgoing PDP governors are his set and friends. I can tell you
that he is still in their good books. And don't forget that Muazu was
a former governor. Soon after Muazu resigned the name of Ikedi Ohakim
was severally mentioned by many of the governors as Muazu's probable
sucessor," he stressed.
Since this scoop, Midweek Nigerian Horn has been analysing the trend
of the emergence of the national chairman of the PDP since 1999. It
was discovered that the North Central geo-political zone, especially
the part that is commonly regarded as the Middle Belt has produced
Late Chief Solomon Lar, Chief Audu Ogbe, Late Chief Sunday Awoniyi,
and Chief Barnabas Gemade. From the North East, there have been Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur and Alhaji Adamu Muazu as PDP Chairmen, while from the
South East there have been Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo and, Chief Vincent
Ogbulafor. The other zones have not provided the party's Chairman at
any time.
This selection and appointment of the party chairman, Midweek Nigerian
Horn gathered, is premised on the positioning of other zones in the
distribution of the party offices right from the President, the Vice
President, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House and so on.
In the case of the expected emergence of Chief Ikedi Ohakim as the
next PDP Chairman, Midweek Nigerian Horn has looked at the fact that
Imo State is yet to produce the chairman. While Chief Nwodo is from
Enugu State, Chief Ogbulafor is from Abia State. And for its ranking
status as a prime state created out of the former East Central State,
Imo State deserves to present the Chairman of the self-styled Africa's
biggest political party. This also forms an added advantage for the
speculated emergence of Dr. Ikedi Ohakim as next PDP National
Chairman.
Only recently, Ohakim delivered a well researched and presented
article on the situations that led to the defeat of the PDP in the
2015 presidential elections as well as some other segments of the
elections. And his verdict, inter alia was that the leadership style
of Alhaji Adamu Muazu as PDP Chairman, was faulty and questionable. In
that piece Ohakim had stressed thus:
"Thus, from one single act of removing his from the big picture,
President Jonathan had the baton of PDP tragically fall of his hands,
In a twinkle of an eye, what was known the world over as Africa's
largest political party became a regional party overnight; now
restricted to the former Eastern Nigeria.
"The national chairman, Malam Adamu Muazu, did not help matters. With
a style of leadership that defied any known tenets in party
administration, Mu'azu frustrated several party leaders across the
country who genuinely wanted to make inputs on how to save the party.
The national chairman was incommunicado most of the times. He neither
accepted telephone calls nor returned. He never replied to letters or
memos from well meaning party leaders.
"For example, none of the petitions written to the NWC, which he
leads, on the governorship and national assembly primaries in the
states were treated. Mallam Adamu Mu'azu never addressed any of the
issues that were causing discomfiture in the state chapters; but
resorted to a style that saw him pick and choose friends from among
party leaders and chieftains across the country," Ohakim stated.
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