Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Affairs, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can’t be fixed.
Baba-Ahmed made this statement on Thursday during an
interview on Arise Television.
He was speaking on Nigeria’s political terrain ahead of the
forthcoming 2027 general elections.
“The PDP is drifting away. I think it is gone, and I do not
believe anyone can fix it. The PDP is not the only party capable of providing a
credible opposition to the APC; there is the ADC and others.
“I think that sometimes we blame the government too much and
we don’t pay attention to the damage that the PDP, the opposition, has done to
itself. The truth about it is that PDP has been on the free fall for a long
time.
“These are politicians who held power for a very long time
and it turns out that these people never had any experience in being in the
opposition. These are accomplished politicians who run the country, and
suddenly they lost power and they lost their heads.
“People blame Tinubu. I blame him as well, because there are
areas clearly where he’s wrong. He’s amassing too much power, or what appears
to be too much power. He is actually collecting too many politicians around
him. That’s not necessarily power.
“But what has the PDP done to itself? PDP has been involved
in destroying itself consistently. And what is amazing is that they started
very well as a party, accomplished politicians, people who had served their
country very well. And certainly it has degenerated and this is where we are.
“They allowed their party to split. They couldn’t find a way
to either take the part that is left. It’s not the first time PDP has taken a
huge chunk of itself and given it to the opposition. This happened in 2015 and
it’s happening again,” he said.
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