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In the medical parlance,coma is a state of extreme un responsiveness
in which an individual exhibits no voluntary movement or behaviour. In
deep coma, even painful stimuli action which when performed on a
healthy individual,result in reaction are unable to affect any
response and normal reflexes may be lost.
Some one who is in a state of coma is unconscious and will not respond
to voices and other sound,or any sort of activities going on nearby.
The person is still alive,but the brain is functioning at its lowest
stage of alertness.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Alh.
Bamanga Tukur can not be said to be different from the above situation
as at today. Before I am crucified for this harsh verdict, I want the
substance in our collective judgment.
Despite all the pretensions or posturing that defy obvious reality.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is in the state of coma. The
funeral atmosphere that attended the recent special convention of the
party had removed any vestige of doubt that the PDP is actually in a
coma. A convention at which there were more long faces than smiling
faces conveys ominous signal of the uncertain fate that awaits the
party. Indeed,any one who had the curiosity to watch the proceeding on
Television live could not have failed to notice the bizarre features
of the controversial special convention. The atmosphere of
conviviality and amiability that should attended a gathering of one
family was palpably missing. Infact the whole event appears like a
weeding attended by reluctant or unhappy guests. Many of the
participants,including the president,governors,senators,ministers and
party faithfuls wore the expressions of their minds on their faces
especially when the formal vice president of Nigeria Alh. Atiku
Abubakar (Turaki Adamawa) who walk out of the venue of the convention
with seven governors. The mood of those who were present was
unmistakably gloomy. Even peripheral observers could not help asking
themselves what manner of national convention the PDP leaders were
holding. That singular act by “Turaki Adamawa” and the seven wise
governor (which is a topic for another day),was widely regarded as a
brutal assault on President Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan and other party
executives. With the breakaway faction of the New PDP marked the
beginning of the current crises of confidence within the old PDP and
new PDP and the strained relationship between the President and other
party loyalist. However, the recent national special convention of the
PDP was the most unexciting political event Nigerians have ever
witnessed within living memory. I must diagnose in tears, our beloved
mother PDP will soon die with her curable disease if not urgently
attended to.
I REST MY PEN.
