PDP WITHOUT GOODLUCK AT GUBER FLAG-OFF, NOT A DANGEROUS SIGNAL?

His Excellency
Dr  Goodluck Jonathan

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Aziwe Jonathan had been no doubts the most prominent PDP Political fatherly figure in Nigeria, especially in  Bayelsa State. Dr. Jonathan started well his political career been the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, the first deputy Governor at that. He rose ahead at the nick of time in the PDP to the NO 1 seat of the nation, the Presidency.
Dr. Jonathan truly loved his party, the PDP, and he demonstrated that in his humility. Whenever political attention was needed of him by the PDP family Goodluck Jonathan always paid priority attention to that, and that made him a political father indeed of the PDP nationwide.
The last public political gathering he attended might not be far from that of the flag-off of the immediate past gubernatorial primaries.
Yesterday's flag-off of the forthcoming Governorship Election by the PDP faced a great challenge copiously due to the absence of the father of the party, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan and other key players.
It was observed that the yuletide atmosphere associated with such  occasions in the past did not apply here, and that may not be unconnected to the fact that some of the Local Government Areas PDP members did not surface with their bus  loads of wards delegates as was the norm

However, Golden Pen reliably gathered that the immediate past PDP primaries won by Senator Douye Diri had torn the umbrella party to shreds. Politics is a game just like football or every other game, but that is not usually the case with Bayelsan politicians, whenever they noticed an iota  of oppression and or impunity from any advantaged individual or group they don't use to take kindly or lie low.
Why the former President was not at yesterday's historic event organized by the PDP, according to reliable sources was that the former president had washed his hands off PDP affairs for the next six months. Dr Jonathan acted 'Pontus Pilate' , not because he had left the party, but because the Ogbia People have also taken the moves by the former President as a wise decision our source said.
That situation informed the gale of defections by most of the political gladiators of Ogbia Local Government Area PDP members and their followers to the APC.
In Nembe the Nembe Local Government Area, the story is the same, almost all the PDP strongest supporters have resolutely turned their backs against the PDP and had embraced the APC.
The story is the same of Brass Local Government Area which had been APC dominated, all the while, but information is rife that defections by other members of the PDP.,.. to the APC awaits the flag-off the APC Governorship campaigns.
The Landlords of Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa, the people of  Epie/Atisa were widely published through the media of their mass defection from the PDP to the APC, penultimate week.
This is not the first time the PDP is having post election crisis. It had happened always, and efficiently managed by experi itenced crisis managers who had done agrat feat before now.
But the worry of the moment according to some 'egg heads' in the PDP family is the absence of the former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan who shall be away for about six months according to the information.
Besides that, the victory of Senator Douye Diri at the PDP Governorship primaries had torn the umbrella (the symbol of the PDP) to shreds, with most of the guber aspirants who lost by all means, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) .
The Governorship Election comes up on the 16th of November. 2019.