The Ag. National Chairman,

Though:
The National Secretary,
The Zonal Leadership Chairman,
People's Democratic Party,
Nat'l Headquarters,
Wadatta Plaza
Abuja, Nigeria.

Dear sir.

EDO GUBER ELECTION: "The National Leadership Must act Now and Decisively".

"A Stitch in Time Saves a Million Wounds"

I have watched in nostalgia the activities of the State Government's Appointees and some PDP gullible yielders in Edo state on how they are basking in the euphoria of selfishness and self defeatism to further create more woes and miseries for the party in their attempt to play along the subjugating card of the Governor who is hell bent on continuing his parochial imaginative hegemony of the PDP and the state through his proxies and Purchased gullible Mis-leaders.

Yes, the governor may have his say, but trust, God through the vast majority of the electorates will certainly have their way. From the way the process is going, The experience of last year's general elections may be a child's play if the Governor and his emergency appointees in the state and in all the Local Government Councils are not called to order to allow Free, Fair, & Credible Elections and selection process within the party.

Yes again, it is the best interest of the part to allow the Edo Central to produce it's candidate for the election, but the process must be seen to be Free, Fair, Credible & Justifiable enough to allow the best and most Popular candidate with known and reliable pedigree and antecedence beyond the raz mataz & Hypocritical sycophantic 'vuvuzelas' from the state government's defined and undefined appointees to emerge. A candidate that is popular and will be highly acceptable by the real electorates beyond the government house appointees will be the magic.

The PDP sure have this election to win or loose depending on how sincere and objective the National Leadership of the party would wear their real political lens, weigh the Strength and Weaknesses, Consider the Opportunities and Threats surrounding the party since the inception and attempted Lordship of the party by Gov. Obaseki, and take a firm position irrespective of whose ox is gored, as the interest of the party must take prominence and remain sacrosanct especially in a highly sophisticated state like Edo.

It's no news that the PDP in the state maintains two group/faction which this coming Guber Primary have it all to finally resolved and settled. The National Leadership must need look into the various faction based on the strength of their SWOT analysis findings, and take a firm position by deciding beyond undue influences and without prejudice on;

i. Which Senatorial District should produce the Guber Candidate and it's Deputy.

ii. Which faction should produce the Governorship Candidate, while the other produces the Deputy.

iii. They can even go the extra mile to decide on other key positions like the "SSG & COS" for the both factions.

Trust, If this is done decisively, the long lost peace and sincere cohesion would be restored and the party would go into the main election with high hope and greater enthusiasm. But when this is not done, trust the election may have been lost before the election.

Looking at the activities and body language of the opposition parties in the state, they are banking on these perceived weakness of the PDP in planning their activities. They may decide to pick their Candidate from either the South or North against the interest of the vast majority of the electorates as is clearly obvious from Public opinion, and relying on the perceived deceptive population strength of those Districts. But if the PDP get their acts well by Fielding a very popular candidate form the Central District, the opposition party would be disappointed realising that the Esan race constitute over 25% of the population in those District due to urbanization and Rural-Urban migration, coupled with sympathy votes that would be attracted from the real Electorates for the Edo Agenda of the Central District extraction for Governor as is already be seen across the state.

"A Stitch in Time Saves Nine". The PDP National Leadership must act decisively now, or save the PDP faithfuls the stress of struggling for the Edo State Governorship election which would have been lose before the election if the needful is jettisoned.

Dr. Pius Usiesi
Writes from the Olika community of Uromi.