ALHAJI Atiku Abubakar and Chief Tony Anenih are one of a kind. They were launched onto the centre stage of Nigeria's politics by, arguably, the most undesirable political machine ever to be formed in the history of this nation – the late Major General Yar' Adua's People's Front of Nigeria, PFN, which later renamed itself the People's Democratic Movement, PDM.
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There are certain traits common to most PDM "graduates" irrespective of the platforms they find themselves today. They are highly manipulative.
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They are adept at staging scientifically concocted elections or primaries to fit into the preconceived outcomes.
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That was how they won to lead the Social Democratic Party, SDP, even though they were the minority faction to the Babangida decreed amalgam in November 1990. They brought the tradition into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Obasanjo presidency successfully used it to last eight years.