A Chieftain and founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu has chided the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees Chairman, Adolphous Wabara claim of one party state.
Okechukwu said the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have themselves to blame for their party’s woes.
Recall that the PDP BoT Chairman, Wabara had vowed that his party would resist any attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state. He said, “Any attempt by the ruling APC to turn Nigeria into a one-party state would be vigorously resisted.
Wabara’s desperation was as a result the gale of defection that hit the party in the last one week in the Southeast.
Recall that the former Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha announced his resignation from PDP after 26 years members.
In a quick motion, the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Chuka Odom also followed suit. Other key stakeholders of PDP in the Southeast States also dumped the party.
But reacting to the statement by Wabara in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, Okechukwu blamed the development on PDP.
According to him, “The blame game dished out to the APC by “Senator Wabara and Co who dug the grave of the PDP is misplaced in all materials particular.”
The DG of VON, stated that “As long as the nemesis of Wabara and Co’s deliberate crass breach of presidential rotation convention between north and south, albeit PDP’s Constitution; Obi’s Labour Party, Kwankwaso’s NNPP and Wike’s Masquerade are alive and breathing, with open arms admitting defector-exits from PDP, there is no valid fear of one party state in Nigeria.”
Okechukwu maintained that the blame game from the BoT Chairman is no solution provider. He said “Therefore, PDP should earnestly introspect on how best to pick the pieces of the party that is dangerously sinking.”
“Instead of careful introspection of its bleeding ailments and how to fix Obi and Kwankwaso’s exit and its troubled Wike’s Masquerade, plus imbibing the best tenets of internal democracy, devoid of breach of the zoning convention, extant laws, planlessness and squander mania, the PDP most times arrogantly hauled unnecessary blame game on the APC.
“My understanding from our elder statesman’s vituperation is that PDP may not even recover in August after the ward, LGA, and State congresses and national convention. When they failed ab initio to embark on careful introspection. To examine the root causes of Obi and Kwankwaso’s exit, especially Wike’s Masquerade. Which led a party that boasted of 60 years uninterrupted reign to woeful failure in 2023 presidential election.
“Truly PDP needs soul searching to make amends, rather than sweeping its troubled faction under the carpet,” he said.
source: Daily Post
