By Yemi Adedeji and Tunde Johnson Abuja
phamacy canada online taxas Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one of the aspirants contesting for the chairmanship position today as announced his withdrawal from the race, alleging the position has been sold to the highest bidder.
Speaking at a press conference to announce his withdrawal from the national chairmanship race for the party, George stated that the zoning principle, which was publicly reinforced last year in Port Harcourt, Rivers State had specifically and rightly affirmed the South-West as the zone to produce the National Chairman.
He noted that this binding proclamation was based on equity, fairness and natural balance that hold any organisation together.
According to George, “but this old, legitimate and morally sound micro zoning principle has now been trashed, dumped in the waste bin, flung into the gutter by very little men who have compromised the pivotal moral anchor of civilised engagement for temporary selfish gains.”
He stated: “It appears the PDP is now bent on self destruction. It has obviously allowed money moguls to dictate its thematic largeness. The party has lost its soul. It has lost its principled beginning and the predications of righteousness. It has traded the finer principles of democratic guidance and equity for the squalid, dirty and shameful resort to mercenary agenda where nothing matters save the putrid, oafish gains of the moment.
“I cannot be part of this screaming aberration. And as the Atona of Yoruba land, I do not expect any well meaning, well disciplined, forthright, sincere Omoluabi of Yoruba land to continue with this deceit and shameful theater.
“The Peoples Democratic Party has now mangled and distorted its soul and spirit. There is no morality here anymore. There is no sanity or any sense of enlightened civility.
“As a result of these observed aberrations wherein the position of the National Chairman has been apparently sold and auctioned to the highest bidder, I, as an Omoluabi and as an authentic Atona of Yorubaland, will not partake in this charade.
“I, hereby, withdraw from this brazen fraud and absolutely preconceived, monetized, mercantilist convention.
“The Yoruba people have been openly maligned. The Yoruba have been savaged, tormented, treated with contempt, scurried, scoffed at, humiliated and denigrated by little men whose sun will soon set.”
