Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-Presidents, Olusegun
Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, has provided his opinion on why Governors and
Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are
dumping the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to him, there are many reasons for the unfortunate
development, which include the fact that Atiku Abubakar, who was the party’s
flag bearer in the 2019 presidential election, allegedly withdrew from the
party and left the country after his defeat.
“After the presidential elections in 2019 and the victory of
the APC; both at the elections and at the supreme court, the Presidential
candidate of the PDP who had gained the leadership of the party by his
emergence at the primaries in Port Harcourt withdrew from the party travelled
out of the country for quite a while but long enough for the party to become
leaderless at the very time that a strong leadership was a political
imperative,” Okupe tweeted.
He added that the absence of Atiku as the party’s leader paved way for all sorts of pseudo leaders and opportunists to emerge and started acting and pretending as leaders.
“The party thereafter became rudderless with no clear
central rallying point that can galvanise its unity and strong internal
strength and cohesion required in trying times.
“Opposition to the ruling party was disjointed,
uncoordinated, lacklustre and most unimpressive.
All was left to the hoarse lone voice of one man Kola
Ologbondiyan, with occasional outbursts from the national chairman.
“Governors, Senators and party leaders were completely muted
with a deafening silence of the grave.
“The BOT and its leadership became moribund and went completely
off the political Radar. They became a default app representing nothing but a
paralysed body of elders with no capacity to energise the party functionaries,
they themselves lacking in vision, vitality, commitment or courage of true
loyal elders.
“The stage became open to ambitious presidential aspirants
who distanced themselves from the party and concerned themselves only with
schemes and selfish devices to fulfil their ambitions.
“In doing this, they forgot that without a functional and
strong united and vibrant party, which is the ultimate platform they needed to
contest, all their efforts will be in vain and absolute jeopardy.
“Thank God for the Bukola Saraki led reconciliation
committee, a commendable product if the National Executive Committee which at
least tried to douse various fires silently burning in the branches of the
state of the party.
“This purposeless drifting, lack of focus and absence of
clearly defined leadership has made the party not too attractive or inspiring
to young and upcoming politicians.
“It has also disillusioned the Nigerian electorates, who in
the face of incontrovertible and inexplicable grand incompetence and lacklustre
performance of the APC government, had looked up to the PDP as THE alternative
and hope for 2023 become forced to take the regrettable decision that APC and
PDP are like “six” and “half a dozen.”
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