UNLIKE APC, PDP IS NOT OWN BY INDIVIDUAL, TRIBE OR - TopicsExpress



          

UNLIKE APC, PDP IS NOT OWN BY INDIVIDUAL, TRIBE OR RELIGION Joseph Chukwuyenum has been a “card- carrying” member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State for more than ten years. In that time he has risen to become a “Unit leader” in Ward H1 of the Etio-Osa Local Government. I met him at his polling unit during the April 26 elections. He was in a good mood. “This is the first time [the PDP is] having it so good. It’s never happened like this before… without spending ten kobo on the electorate,” he told me. Voting had just ended, and it emerged that the PDP had defeated the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state house of assembly ballot at that unit. I was curious. Why were those people voting for the PDP? “People are doing what their conscience has said to them; it is the decision of their hearts they’ve taken,” he said. I was also eager to know why he joined the PDP. “I see PDP as an open party, a party that does not discriminate,” he said, gesturing at his crutches. “You can’t say it is a party where [a single] person has a say. No matter your tribe, we are one. Some parties are sectional. Immediately the name of the party is mentioned you know their godfather. In PDP there’s nothing like that.”
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:59:59 +0000

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