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| Written by News Hound | ||||||
| Thursday, 13 December 2007 | ||||||
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The campaign for the national chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by Senator Pius Anyim received a boost in Nasarawa State over the week as the State Assembly has vowed to mobilize delegates from the State for Anyim’s support. The cheering news was broken to Anyim when he went on a campaign tour of Nasarawa State penultimate week. Receiving Senator Anyim in the State Assembly chamber at Lafia, the Speaker of the State Assembly Hon. Musa Mohammed, who was in Saudi Arabia for Haji but represented by Hon. Mohammed Onawo, immediate past Speaker of the State Assembly, told Anyim that the House has not only resolved to give a block vote to him but in addition has also promised to mobilize delegates from their various constituencies in support of his candidature. Onawo said the decision to queue behind Anyim is based on the fact that the party in the state has always in the past been invited to Abuja to come and endorse a particular candidate for political positions. Though as a speaker of the House, he has always protested such arrangement, but his protest has never achieved any result, he said. “But for Anyim to visit us and ask us to vote for him, these have not only shown that things have changed for the better but they also show the difference between democracy and militocracy.” According to him “if it is the same Anyim I have seen in the Television, if it is the same Anyim I have read in the papers and is the same Anyim who is sitting with me here today soliciting the support of this House, I can assure you that our party has fallen into the right hand and we are in good course.” Speaking further he said, “with your track record and all that you went through to maintain such a dignified profile, let me say it with laud voice, I will not only promise you the support of this House but I will also assure you that members of this House will convince delegates from our various constituencies to vote for you.” This is because it is the belief of the honourable members of this House that “with Anyim and President Umaru Yar’Adua on the driving seat of this country there will definitely be a change of attitude for Nigerians.” Anyim had told members of the State Assembly that what he strives to do as he seeks the office of the national chairman of the party is to ask people to elect him through their votes and not to anoint him. According to him, an anointment would alienate him from the people and make him not to be accountable to them. He said that he decided to pay a visit to the State Assembly because the legislators constitute the statutory delegates to the convention by the PDP constitutional arrangement. That notwithstanding, he said, he has made efforts to reach other arms of government and stakeholders of the party at various levels. According to him, ‘Party in a democracy is not just a machinery for conducting election. Instead, he added, a political party in any democracy should be the conscience of the government and its people. This is because, a political party in any democracy remains the only body that can stabilize the three arms of government.’ Anyim regrets that despite sustaining democracy for the past eight years in Nigeria by PDP, that there is still friction among the various arms of government. He said that the greatest legacy the party can bequeath to the country is to ensure the surviving of democracy. The party can achieve all these he said by first ensuring the surviving of its internal democracy. He therefore assured that if elected the chairman of the party, his major challenges would be the stability of the party and the relationship between the three arms of government, stressing “I will dedicate my life to all these particularly as the party has made me to become whatever I am today.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 1775 | Print | E-mail
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