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Sunday, August 15 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News Election: PDP tinkers with new rules PATRICK ODEY, Lafia THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is tinkering with new rules that will discourage the scramble for party nominations several years before fresh general election are due. The new rules could also lead to expulsion of erring members. Apparently irked by the several aspirants for the 2007 presidency within the ranks, a clear three years before the polling. PDP National chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh said a code of conduct is underway for party stalwarts. Chief Ogbeh was speaking in Lafia, Nasarawa State during the National tour of PDP leaders to the North Central zone holding in Lafia. He expressed "deep worry" over the "mad rush" for campaign by aspirants According to him "The electioneering campaign are far too early. We cannot continue to give Nigeria and the world that all we are interested in is one election after the other." This, he said, must be discontinued as according to him the party leadership has begun campaign to educate the public that there is a government in between. He stated that when the campaign begins there would be a restriction and those who violate them would be shown the way out. He however urged politicians to brace up for the challenges ahead saying that the road to 2005/2007 was fraught with danger. "As we approach 2005/2007 we are going to witness high driving on the political highway, emergency lanes, with accidents and deaths and uncontrollable ambition and application of methods that are less than orthodox..." He said though there is no harm in being ambitious, the leadership of the party was determined to ensure that such ambition must be done the right way. In his speech, the acting chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party Chief Tony Anenih, described the North Central zone as the base of the party but regrets that some disgruntled elements have resorted in using the youths to cause violence and troubles. He stated that unless we put all these behind us, there would be no headway for development and progress. Chief Anenih assured that the meeting would address issues like youth restiveness, discipline, unity and cohesion and good governance, stressing that those who fall out from the party are free to come back as the party would be ready to accommodate them once again. Host governor Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu cautioned against campaign for 2007 saying that "if we are not careful we may be completely distracted from next year."

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