By Nelson Amaobi Osuala
26th of May 2015, 02:48pm.
As the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met recently to appoint a replacement for the former chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, who resigned last week, there was mixed feelings as it regards whether the out going President Goodluck Jonathan will accepts the offer of being the next chairman of the party’s board of trustees.
Reactions from fellow members reveals nothing but fear that Mr president if he concedes to accepting the position would mean that he is indirectly assuming the position of the sovereign as far as the party’s stakeholders are concern.
This diffused phobia amongst the party’s stakeholders is premised upon the fact that, the National chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Secondus, hails from Rivers State and that the National Secretary, Prof Wale Oladipo, is himself, an indigene of Osun State which shows that the duo are all from the southern part of the country, a direct influence of Regionalism.
The stakeholders from the foregoing became agitated and worried sick that if Jonathan assumes office as the PDP’s BoT chairman, it would further complicate as well as also fortify the regionalisation of the PDP instead of ameliorating it and the result would mean a complete alienation of the North.
The president who is billed to surrender his post as the commander in Chief to the president elect and Rtd. General Muhammadu Buhari come Friday may 29, happens by determinism to be an indigene of Bayelsa State.
According to a concerned stakeholder, “we opposed former President Olusegun Obasanjo who after handing over became the chairman of PDP. It is not good for President Jonathan to do same, even if he is offered the office of the chairman of the BoT on a platter of Gold .
“It would not augur well in view of the party that some of the major offices are already concentrated in the south. We have other competent Nigerians that are members of BoT. President Jonathan should resist the temptation of accepting to become the chairman of the BoT.
“The immediate past chairman of the PDP BoT offered President Jonathan the chance of becoming the new chairman, which he rejected, it is not known what informed the outgoing president’s rethink of accepting it now,” the source who is a member of the BoT said.
However, according to reports from THISDAY Newspapers, President Jonathan seems to be standing between the Devil and a deep blue sea to either accept or deny the offer.
