PDP should confronts its ghosts

Dear judge Mbadwa,

My lord, the cliché that the more things change the more they stay the same seems to ring true for the People’s Demagogic Party (PDP).

The party that has for the past three years moved its headquarters to the Tsamba Village appears to be in a very fast self-destruct mode.

I don’t want to repeat what you already know.

But the sooner Mapuya and company realise that burying one’s head in the sand during a crisis hoping that the challenges would go away on their own will only drag the party faster  into oblivion.

But this has been the nature of the PDP leadership anyway. It is always absent when everyone needs its direction.

Without looking at the merit of the recent national governing council meeting in the capital, you have to admire the group that was led by an estranged secretary general for their courage. Maybe the party needed that action to wake up from its slumber.

The Sangalani group is surrounded by hardcore politicians while the Mapuya group is typically made of technocrats who are not adept at handling grass root partisan politics and that explains the decisions being made.

As I have said before, time is not the luxury that PDP can afford now if it wants to put a formidable force in the forthcoming general elections.

It is disappointing that when you expect to see maturity in one of the country’s biggest opposition parties, PDP rushes to underwhelm you with its never-ending stories of who rightly holds authority.

That my lord, most of the leaders in the party are serving selfish interests and they have no interests of its general good at heart is well-documented.

Let the party face its ghosts if it is to be taken seriously and one’s political ambition should not cloud the judgment of the leaders in forging the party’s future.

Don’t say you weren’t told.

Regards,

John Citizen