PDP, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

When the defeated former national ruling party in Nigeria,  People's Democratic Party (PDP) is accusing another party of rigging elections, it is like the 40 thieves accusing Ali Baba of stealing.
PDP invented rigging elections since the 1999 elections and Rivers State was very peaceful until PDP took over power.

Political assassinations became common under PDP.
Using poisonous gas to kill in the State House started with the administration of the Al Capone of Nigerian political Mafia, the Generalissimo of PDP, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.

PDP does not want to win elections to serve the Nigerian masses, but to manipulate the electorate and use their mandate to keep the status quo of the leadership of the political ruling class.

For those who are ignorant of the political history of Nigeria, the PDP is not different from the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), the dominant political party in Nigeria during the Second Republic (1979–1983).
General Olusegun Obasanjo as the military Head of State conducted the 1979 elections. The presidential election was rigged in favour of the NPN and their presidential candidate, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR, (February 25, 1925 – December 28, 2018), became the first and only President of Nigeria's Second Republic  (1979–1983). So in 1999, the political Mafia returned the favour to Obasanjo who in 2007 returned it to Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010).

The emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as an upstart political leader from his election as the Senator for the Lagos West constituency in 1993 and later elected Governor of Lagos State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007 was by the unforeseen circumstances of the June 12 political crisis which resulted in him becoming a founding member of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).
Today, he  is the cofounder and national leader of the new ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

I met him during his birthday party on March 29, 2001 in the Lagos State House at Marina, when we shook hands as I presented a birthday gift of an important book to the Jagaban of the Borgu Kingdom in Niger State. I was one of his special guests invited along with one of his fellow old boys. He is our Ali Baba.

- By Captain Abba Babbi.