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Nigerian coat of Arm
PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP)
USA Chapter
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Motto: Justice, Unity and Progress
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Headquarters
For Book Drive: P.O. Box 1671, Bellingham, Washington, 98227, USA. Phone: (360) 224-3304 * Fax: (360) 671-3329 |
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NIGERIAN NEWS
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Get
Your Conference Registration Forms PURPOSE OF PDP “I understand the
clear message of the Nigerian people. In giving me their mandate, they have
asked me to lead this country by example. They want me to lead them alright.
They want me to restore the dignity of our country. They want me to
revitalize our political institutions and reinvigorate the economy. They want
me to alleviate their poverty and to reduce corruption. They want me to
ensure the security of their lives and property. They want much more. I regard
all these expectations as a challenge that the people of Nigeria have thrown
at me and those with whom I will work in the next four years. I accept and
welcome this challenge. I promise to devote myself entirely to the upliftment
of our people, not only satisfying their yearnings and aspirations, but also
those of all black people wherever they may be around the world.” Immediately after the swearing in ceremony, President Obasanjo listed
the following as his and PDP’s priority issues that must be tackled with
immediate effect. - The crisis
in the oil-producing areas: no improvements 3 years later and more people are
still being killed over oil; and, we already know what happened to resource control,
to Odi people, and the recent attempt by women of the oil producing area to
go nude as protest to what is happening to them. -
Food supply, food security and agriculture: the ‘good news’ is
that prices of staple foods such as garri, rice, beans, cassava, palm oil,
groundnut, and corn have gone up by 100 percent, and the President even
proposed importing Burkinabe beans from Burkina Faso. The agricultural bank’s
interest on loan to farmers is at 35 percent; so, which farmer will take a loan
on this type of high interest? The subsidies on fertilizers have almost
disappeared, and the deliveries of fertilizers are often late into the
farming season. -
Law and order with particular reference to armed robbery, and to
cultism in our educational institutions: Well, Inspector General of Police Muslui
Smith was replaced for incompetence after 3 years, and replaced by IG Tafa
Balogun, who has since initiated operation ‘fire for fire. The irony is that
armed robbers have superior weapons, and they are better marksmen than the
police. On cultism in the universities, we have witnessed over 200 students
killed in the universities nationwide, due to cult and secret society
activities, without any real action by government. - Exploration
and production of petroleum: Very lucrative area -- only the President can
issue any and all allocation rights to oil; his cronies have made a wealthy
mess of themselves. -
Education: UBE is still on track… barely, whilst the
universities are under-funded, and there are constant strikes by the Academic
Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU), forcing schools to close. Bravo, Mr.
President! -
Macro-economic policies, particularly exchange rates management: We see very ingenious
moves; when PDP took over, they inherited an exchange rate of 103 naira to 1
dollar –- Central Bank rate, and 115 naira to 1 dollar –- street-corner rate.
Today the rates have been raised to benefit Nigerians abroad to a ‘civilized’
rate of 120 naira to 1 dollar and 137 naira to 1 dollar respectively. This is
very excellent macroeconomics; no wonder President Obasanjo called Professor
Sam Aluko, an internationally renowned economist, “senile,” for averring that
Abacha had a much better fiscal program than Obasanjo. Now, you may judge who
is truly senile. -
Supply and distribution of petroleum products: The nation is still
suffering from incessant fuel shortages, and prices have gone up considerably
since PDP took over government. -
The debt issue: The legislators wanted the President to tell
them how much the country owes. Three years later, we still do not know what
it owes, and how much has been paid back to the international community. -
Corruption, drugs, organized fraud called “419” activities, and
crimes leading to loss of lives, properties, and investments: This is epitome of
President Obasanjo, and PDP’s achievements. Justice Akanbi was empowered with
the anti-corruption bill to deal with those found to be corrupt. But his
court has become a goat’s court where nobody has been arraigned. The
President dismissed 10 of his ministers for incompetence and alleged
corruption since assuming office in 1999, yet none has been dragged to the corruption
court. The lower and upper legislative bodies have tales of ‘Ghana must go’
bags stuffed with money being shuffled through their doors by the executive
arm as inducements to destabilize them; yet, no casualties have been
recorded. - Infrastructure,
Water supply, Energy, Telecommunication, Ports, Airways, National shipping,
and Nigerian Airways, etc.: The government has indeed made monumental strides
in the areas of telecommunications since the introduction of GSM mobile
system; however, it only works in selected areas. The country missed an offer
by Surrey University England to assist NITEL in launching a
telecommunications satellite into the orbit for only seven million dollars.
This fete would have improved the telecom industry and reduced the rates
being charged both domestically and internationally, but President Obasanjo
cancelled the deal when it was discovered that a high-ranking official from
Nigeria had added a zero to the seven; making it 70 million dollars. The
official is still said to be in government without any consequence. - Resuscitation
of the manufacturing industries: Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN) has
since the inception of PDP government accused them of creating an environment
deemed unconducive to manufacturing. The industries are failing for lack of
energy. How can you operate on bank loans with interest rates of about 4o percent?
That’s a remarkable achievement for President Obasanjo. As a matter of fact
Nigeria’s use of GSM phones has created over 5,000 jobs in both South Korea
and China; does it mean that Nigeria cannot assemble these cell phones in
Nigeria? The most widely used refrigerators and air-conditioners in Nigeria,
called WestPoint, are actually made in Brazil. Does it mean Nigeria cannot
assemble these electronics, thereby creating jobs for the unemployed, and
reducing the adoration for crime? -
Job
creation and the creation of an environment conducive for investment: Indeed more jobs
were created after the dissolution of PTF, resulting in over 150,000 jobs
lost! More jobs were created after the closure of Savannah Bank, resulting in
over 3,000 job loss! As a matter of fact, the administration is so creative
that Nigeria’s unemployment rate has reached over 60 percent. Graduates who
had their diplomas eight years ago are still idling without any prospect of
employment. The only international investors that come are crooks who are
there to assist the legislators and high ranking officials move ill-gotten
funds out of the country. Their investments are simply their company’s letter
headed papers. Investor’s are truly afraid of the state of insecurity in the country.
(The only entity working is the National Directorate of Employment created by
General Ibrahim B. Babangida.) -
Poverty
Alleviation: Over 50 billion naira has been invested in this program. The only
person whose poverty has been alleviated seems to be that of PDP elements
that are storing money for reelection. The poor masses, who are supposed to
benefit, have emaciated to the point that they are afraid of asking those
charged with the responsibility of implementing the various programs
associated with the alleviation, for fear of incurring their wrath. -
ECOMOG: The government will
bury the over 800 soldiers killed in action with full military honors, while
ignoring the over 250,000 dead soldiers killed on both sides during the Civil
War to keep Nigeria one. Very smart indeed. The Nigerian Police for the first
time in our history went on strike, and even junior military officers have
threatened to do same if their entitlements are not met. -
Health
Services: The poor are subjected to sad situations in our hospitals, while the
rich are ferried out to Germany, Britain, and United States to receive
adequate medical attention, although NAFDAC agency is doing their best to
stamp out adulterated drugs illegally brought into the country by scrupulous
Indian and some Igbo merchants who are bent on making that money by all means. -
Political
and Constitutional dialogue: We have seen the beautiful and
extra-cooperative friendship between the executive arm, the lower arm, and
the upper legislative arm. If all is well, as the President had promised us,
how come the budget of 2002 is yet to be released 8 months into the year?
Something strange is going on, and the common man is being made to carry the
brunt. The President is emboldened to take his usual global trips while
ignoring the fact that pensioners and current government employees in mostly
PDP controlled states have not received their salaries for four months and
counting. May God in His might punish PDP for doing this to innocent citizens
of Nigeria, whose only crime is giving their mandate to the party. -
Women
and Youth empowerment: This is another area where the government has made gigantic strides:
The newly empowered youths have become vigilante groups like Bakassi and
Egbesu; some have turned into armed robbers, unemployed Almajiri, armed
political thugs, menace to the society like OPC, drug dealers and sellers.
For women empowerment, our sisters have become what Americans call
trick-chicks or commonly called international prostitutes. In pursuit of these priorities as envisaged by President
Obasanjo and PDP, one can clearly understand why they need four more years to
accomplish them. Had President Obasanjo and PDP completed half of what they
promised, we as Nigerians would likely ask that they should be reelected in
the interest of continuity and peaceful transition. But they did not.
Therefore, the truth of the matter is that the time for accouchement by Nigerians
has finally arrived. PDP must be overthrown by a civilian-administered coup
in 2003. THE ONLY SOLUTION IN 2003
President Obasanjo continues to promise
Nigerians and the international community that he intends to conduct a free
and fair election. Judging by what is happening today in the country, one
begins to wonder how he will do it.
The chairmen of all the parties have signed a ‘non-rigging’ pact.
The pact should be enforced with each party contributing an election monitor
for each polling station; a National Election Monitoring Task Force (NEMTF)
should be empanelled to include a member of the Mobile Police Force, Army,
Navy, Air force, SSS, NIA, National Security, Customs, Clergy, Student Union,
NRTW, and, if possible, volunteers from Nigerians with dual citizenships
(thanks to IBB) living abroad to assist INEC in manning the polling stations
and ballot boxes to subvert any rigging and manipulation of votes. On the day of the elections, all political thugs must be disarmed
before entering the election grounds, and intimidations against opposition
candidates should be adjudged as act of treason punishable with maximum
sentences. All the state governors and other contestants must be invited to
pre-election seminar conducted by the SSS. They should be warned that if
anyone is killed due to thuggery or acts of intimidation, it might result in
contestants facing the death sentence without the protection of Section 308
of the Constitution. The police, helped by the SSS, must be given the power
to enforce the laws of the land without bias. Every party must accept the verdict of the election, win or lose.
Should Nigerians abide by this simple rule, they will save their hard-earned
democracy and the nation will soar in the eyes of the world. And this will
surely be the end of PDP as we know it today. After the party is buried, we
shall sadly say as an epithet: “Here lies the iconoclastic party, the party
that had the people’s mandate but self-destroyed with wicked avarice and
corruption that earned her the wrath of God.” Long live Nigeria. Extract from www.kwenu.com
GENERAL INFORMATION People's Democratic
Party [PDP] is the Nigerian ruling party that wrestled power from the
Federal Military Government of Nigeria under the able and distinguished
leadership of His Excellency, President (retired General) Olusegun Obasanjo.
In view of this development, Nigeria that was hitherto isolated and
ostracized by the international community during the most repressive
and dictatorial regime of the late general Sani Abacha , a
democratically elected government came into office on May 29, 1999 and
ever since then, the rule of law has returned to the peace loving nation of
Nigeria. Following the very
impressive work that has been done by the government of Nigeria, cultural
preservability, infrastructural rehabilitation, political
stability, democratic revivability, , economic viability and
prosperity are gradually being returned to the most populous Black nation in
the world (West Africa). As a result of these achievements, we: the people of
Nigeria resident in the United States have resolved to inaugurate and
incorporate the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria in the 50 states of the
United States of America as chapters with a national secretariat to be based
in a state yet undecided. In the light of the above, the People's Democratic
of Nigeria [PDP] Diaspora, Imo State Citizens was established in 2002. OFFICERS OF THE PARTY
Updated Information about PDP Nigeria On November 11, 2001
at a PDP national convention in Abuja -Nigeria, a new national executive body
of the People's Democratic Party was elected into office for four (4) years.
This November 2001 convention ultimately culminated in the election of Chief,
Prof. Audu Ogbeh (Benue State) - a one-time Minister of Communication (Oct.
1, 1979 - Dec. 31, 1983) in the Shagari administration. We all know what
happened during the Shagari administration. That very Shagari administration
was a corrupt one; at least, as much as the administration of General
Buhari's that toppled the Shagari's rule and the records of the
Military Tribunal that convicted all the state officials, especially the
state governors, except Alhaji Jakande of Lagos state. Others that were
convicted were all federal officials of that administration, except chief,
Prof. Audu Ogbeh would show. Even president Shagari himself has qualified
Prof. Audu Ogbeh as the ONLY INCORRUPTIBLE minister during his
administration. This is a new era in the PDP when we have a crop of young
leaders with vision, purpose, direction, and above all else, leaders that are
de-tribalized, they are people of unqualified transparent honesty and
absolute integrity. Long live Chief, Prof. Audu Innocent Ogbeh, Long Live
Peoples Democratic Party, Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Long
Live the United States of America.
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) -United States
Branches
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Secretariat: New York * Phone: (781) 781-0112 * Secretary: Mr.
Nicholas woyemi |
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