CPC CRISIS IN KATSINA: AN OPEN LETTER TO DISTINGUISHED SENATOR AHMED SANI STORES AKA ‘MAIGEMU’

Dear Distinguished Senator, I should have written this letter to you long time ago but for one reason or the other I decided to tarry a while. But with the recent development and its aftermaths within the CPC in Katsina which relates to your explosion from the party together with six others, I think the procrastination has become a blessing in disguise. You will wonder why I decided to make this letter open on Facebook and specifically on KT Discussion group and Progress and Development Initiative Katsina. Well, it is because I feel there are certain people within these folds who are likely to share my views on what I intend to say to you and will surely add value on the subject and of course they may be some who will oppose and together we will engender a good discourse that will enable you accept my preposition or not. Albeit I haven’t seen your traces on facebook or any of the social network sites for that matter but am sure the message will reach you within a short time and may be that will encourage you to open up an account. I bet you won’t regret doing it as it will make you link up with former school mates, class mates and other friends you have not seen for some time. Ok, let us go; The crisis: As everyone now knows, there is none among the political parties in the country that is not going through one form of crisis or another. We have heard of suspensions and expulsions in almost all the parties in the country. It is a fact that certain party members that have not succeeded in getting elected or appointed into public offices become disgruntled and are subverting their colleagues and parties, others are simply jealous somebody else and not themselves that is so and so. Unenlightened and unsportsmanlike as this may be, it is a fact that such situations exist in almost all the parties. It is, therefore, not strange that the CPC, like any other political party is having its own share of internal crisis. The crisis in Katsina has polarized the party into two distinct camps i.e. Masari and Lado camps, this you are quite aware of and since then a lot has been said about the supremacy as well as the right of the party to discipline its erring members because any party that lacks built- in mechanism of discipline is destined to fail. The higher interest of the party must override those of its individual members no matter how highly placed they may be. It is undoubtedly part of party discipline that the extant rules, regulations and procedures of the party are complied with by all members. The crisis of CPC in Katsina is a great design of hypocrisy, insincerity and a diabolical plan to entrench sycophancy, nepotism and to further the move to link the party with its arch enemy- the PDP. This fact you may not be aware of: We may not have seen the end of the crisis because I understand that you and the other expelled members have sworn not to abide by the party’s directive and this brings me to the import of this letter to you. You see, Distinguished Sen, since when I learnt you are back in Nigeria and you decided to join politics I was overwhelmed with joy especially when I learnt you are joining the progressive train of the CPC. But when I learnt you are in the same sinking boat with the dissidents my heart became ‘black’. Infact that was the first time I contemplated writing this letter. This is because you don’t actually belong to that camp. I watched your campaigns from afar as we are in different sites but each time I saw in you a bulging young Politian, I saw bright future, I saw hope in you because that is what you actually represent, unfortunately, you allowed yourself to be used by those who don’t have sympathy for our future. These are people who are self centered, who are only concerned in what they can get not what they are ready to do for the people. But Alhamdulillah, we are vindicated as the greatest beneficiaries of the CPC crisis in Katsna are Danmusa and Lado. Mamman Abubakar Danmusa knew from the onset as the ‘learned one’ that he was fighting a war that he would never win, he was fighting against party supremacy which no any party member can win. It is so right from the beginning of time, it is the party that is responsible for fielding a candidate and this fact was echoed by the 2011 Electoral act. Danmusa is destroying your political ambitions because as long as you are fighting the party that is supposed to be the umbrella under which you contest elections then you will never be a candidate. If you like employ the services of all the Senior Advocate of Nigeria to present your case; you will still be in a vicious circle. It is my prayer that you detach yourself from Mamman Abubakar Danmusa because as long as you are on his side then you are liable to the offence of antiparty activities and I don’t think there is anybody who can help you out; unless if you are part of the same agenda of bringing the party down. I don’t want to believe you are part of it. By the way, does Danmusa has any stake in the CPC? Wallahi, he doesn’t, he is done with it! He got his hands full with ‘salt and pepper’, he got one of his sons a commissioner, another a legislative assistance, another one waiting to a council chairman. You think he cares about you? No! He is only following a diabolical script to destroy the CPC as part of the agenda that he was paid for. Finally, Distnguished Sen. As the countdown to 2015 begins, the earlier you cut off the umbilical cord that links you with Danmusa and anything antiparty the better for you and your political survival, he has no value to add to you and your aspirations. So withdraw your name from the subsisting case and make up with your party. You have plenty of future ahead of you don’t squander it for the sake somebody who is not worth it. Please read between the lines. Sincerely Yours, ISA AHMED