Plot to Remove Adamu Muazu as PDP National Cahirman Thickens

What may further weaken and totally factionalize already compromised structured of People Democratic Party seems slightly brewing as members of the party in Southeast and South-south have started calling on the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu to step down as the chairman to pave the way for acting chairman and party convention that will elect new National Executive of the party.

The call for the chairman’s resignation or removal if he fails to, is rife among Igbo speaking members who blame the poor performance of the party in the last general elections of 2015 to his lack of administrative experience, political naivety and tribal conspiracy. In this enterprise , the Igbos are also seeking the support of the Niger Delta members who equally felt short changed by shifting of nation’s power base from the region to the north.

Recently while on a courtesy visit to the Abia State Governor Theodore Orji, Muazu honourably own up to the lackluster of his party’s candiadtes in the just concluded elections and promised alongside other National Working Committee (NWC) to conduct an assessment of the individual and collective mistakes that led to the party’s dismal performance in the last elections then rebrand as well as restrategise the party to come back to its dominant position by 2019.

The members of the party in the Southeast were not appeased by this submission of the National Chairman instead they want him to step down for a southerner since the party now has its power based in the Southeast and South-south geopolitical zone. 

Before this renewed push for the exit of the National Chairman, it was alleged in some quarters particularly among the Igbo and Ijaw members that Muazu was working against the interests of the party’s presidential candidate President Goodluck Jonathan. They based their argument on poor coordination of the president’s reelection bid campaigns by the party’s chairman in the north, his ethnic background.

As the calls and accusations about the loyalty of the embattled chairman ranged on during the electioneering campaign, Muazu kept his cool and was busy salvaging plummeting fortunes of once powerful party said to be the largest in Africa. At a time, probably when the body language around him becomes unbearable and intolerable, he stayed away from the presidential campaign activities. The National Chairman was conspicuously absent and missing in all his chairmanship responsibilities making most of presidential campaigns disorganised and uncoordinated.

Whether the Igbo speaking members and agitators who are wooing their Niger Delta neighbours will succeed in the project to unseat the chairman remains to be seen but one thing is sure, removing Adamu Muazu at this crucial time will incensed the remaining sympathisers of the party in the north. The National Chairman is not a small denomination in the north when it comes to politicking and humiliating him will further factionalise the party which is already rocked by lack of internal party politics, candidates imposition, impunity and gross indiscipline. 

If wise counsel will suffice at this time, dealing with the present situation of PDP calls for maturity, deep reflection, sacrifice, high spirit of forgiveness and cooperation on the part of all stakeholders to move the party forward.