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Why Are Obasanjo, Anenih Deceiving The South-South People

Senior Fyneface

When the Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi said “There was a gentleman’s agreement back in 2003 that it (the presidency) should go back to the north”, that was just another way of saying that President Obasanjo and the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been deceiving the South-South people, maybe the South-East also.

In what was like the state of union address, Governor Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State after what he described as “routine consultation” with President Olusegun Obasanjo at the State House, Abuja, advised the South-South to drop its agitation for the presidency and support a northern candidate in next year elections “because there was a gentleman’s agreement dating back to 2003 that power should shift to the north in 2007”.

As far as the governor is concerned, the South-South is not in contention for the Presidency of this country for now following what he described as “antecedents”.

This was a clear collaboration of Governor Makarfi’s statement coming from a true South-South patriot and an ardent believer in the correction of the injustice against the south-south people.

Keen political watchers would fully agree with the school of thought that believes that the ongoing hype within the PDP circle for a south-south president is a dummy to deceive the south-south by the Obasanjo-led PDP mischief makers into believing that power would shift to them.

As one informed analyst earlier exposed, “I see this thing as a deceptive ploy to keep the two zones under the firm grip of the PDP cum the power elite thereby stopping or delaying them from venturing out to a fresh party where they may have greater possibility of actualising their hope of taking shot at the presidency.

To say that power would shift to the north is as sure as death. President Obasanjo knows it. Ahmadu Ali knows it. Even Chief Tony Anenih knows it. If not, how can you explain the very visible participation of his wife, not just mere presence but with a matter-of-fact message to the Gen Buba Marwa’s Presidential declaration at the Eagle Square on Saturday June 24, 2006.

Is Anenih’s wife, PDP Women Leader, taking an opposite political course from her husband? This is not possible because she cannot afford such dangerous action with the man popularly referred to as “Mr Fix it” whatever that means. Except Anenih’s wife went to the Eagle Square to deceive Gen Marwa. This is not likely too. So who is fooling whom?

It is annoying that my South-South brothers do not know who their true enemies are. If Mrs Anenih could publicly declare for Gen Marwa saying, “By the grace of God, this is the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.

What else can I say? The PDP as a party remains the greatest enemy of the South-South people because from all clarity of intention, it lacks the political will power or rather it is incapacitated to take decisive stand on the south-south agitation for a shot at the number one political position of this country. Or could it be said that it is another deliberate ploy by the party to ride on the zone to save it from going into complete oblivion? Time, indeed, very short time will tell. The problem is that the already battered people of the south south would be worse for it.

SENIOR FYNEFACE, JP, VETERAN JOURNALIST, FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, COMMUNITY LEADER & PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMENTATOR WRITES FROM PORT HARCOURT