Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, yesterday formally declared his interest in the party’s National Chairmanship ahead of the party’s forthcoming National Convention billed for Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
However, George’s protégée and the party’s governorship candidate in Lagos State at the last election, Jimi Agbaje, was absent at the well-attended event. Agbaje has been tipped in some quarters to emerge as the party’s national chairman.
Speaking at the carnival like flag-off held at the party’s secretariat in Ikeja GRA, George said he has the political magic wand and requisite skills to reposition the party from its present state.
Lamenting the present state of the party, George said, “These are not happy days for our party. The times appear dark and bleak. The horizon is uncertain. We are being assailed in every corner. Problems brew everywhere.
Our challenges appear endless and intractable. Every day, we are confronted with a new drama and with a new hurdle. Certainly, there are some obvious and not so obvious interests inside and outside our party who do not wish us well.
“Ah, times have changed! Our great party is no longer recognizable today. A lot of distortions have set in. Indiscipline has eroded the foundations of old. Selfishness and greed have compromised the great idealisms and the logical principles of our founding fathers.”
