PDP crisis: Abandon personal ambitions, save party, Bode George tells members

Former National Deputy Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has told feuding members of the party to forego their personal ambitions for the sake of its survival.

George, who recently turned down his appointment as a member of the PDP National Disciplinary Committee, gave the admonition while appearing on a TVC political programme on Sunday, advocating a roundtable discussion to resolve contending issues.

George affirmed that the main opposition party has internal crisis, which he said was not however peculiar to it.

He said: “I know we have internal crisis in our party, it’s normal. There’s no organization anywhere in the world where you will not have some disagreement. I am pleading with all sides, they should calm their nerves.

“We can get back to the table and discuss at length. All participants should drop their personal ambitions. Hatred, pettiness and jealousy is normal all over the world. We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

Advising against over-ambition, George said when one gets to certain age and class, the best thing to do is to handover to younger generations.

He added: “The is a new concept now in politics called President Joe Biden political strategy, when you get to a certain age and a certain class, you handover to the younger generation to continue because of your country. No individual can be larger or bigger than a nation and if you have that as your concept, nobody can be in power forever.

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“History will judge. Our leaders since 1998 conceptualized the idea of looking at our past and projecting a workable political platform. No matter how the history of this country is written, you can never forget Papa Alex Ekueme, he was the chief convener of different political groups, he called Chief Bola Ige from the SouthWest, Alex Nwobodo from his side, Papa Solomon Lar and so many others we call the G14, they sat back and assess and carry out analysis.”
The Lagos politician said every necessary thing should be done to avoid the fate of the second republic.

“Why the first Republic failed at the first instance? Why did the Shagari government fail? The military government kept coming in and out? How can we prevent the coming back of the military in government,” he wondered.

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE