{"id":17738,"date":"2026-03-26T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/pdps-shameful-disservice-to-nigeria-by-olu-fasan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:49:00","slug":"pdps-shameful-disservice-to-nigeria-by-olu-fasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/pdps-shameful-disservice-to-nigeria-by-olu-fasan\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP\u2019s shameful disservice to Nigeria, by Olu Fasan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PDP\u2019s shameful disservice to Nigeria, by Olu Fasan, <\/p>\n

The Peoples Democratic Party,\u00a0PDP, is comatose on a deathbed; it\u2019s on life support. The doctors (INEC and the judiciary) are colluding to switch off the life-support machine. They believe the party needs euthanasia or assisted suicide. Yet, what\u2019s really needed is to remove the external factors that interacted with PDP\u2019s genetic predisposition to cause its disease. <\/p>\n

But virtually all of PDP\u2019s children (governors and legislators), who should fight to save its life, have abandoned it and joined its enemy, All Progressives Congress, APC, which is behind the external factors. However, one reprobate child (Nyesom Wike), a bully, who works for the enemy but \u201cremains\u201d in PDP, wants to \u201chold it down\u201d for APC\u2019s Bola Tinubu, and use the PDP\u2019s structures to help him win re-election as president next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The above extended metaphor is a case study in how a major political party can self-destruct through internal convulsion and vulnerability to external predators. Charles Darwin famously propounded the theory of natural selection, arguing that any organism that can\u2019t adapt will become extinct. In the struggle for existence, it\u2019s survival of the fittest; only the strong will continue to exist, the weak will succumb to extinction. That\u2019s the existential story of PDP!<\/p>\n

But PDP\u2019s story is also one of national betrayal, of utter disservice to a nation. Here\u2019s a party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years, during which most of its members lived off the Nigerian state through various political and public offices at federal, state and local levels. But once the party lost power, it became completely disorientated, unable to provide credible opposition, while its members fled in droves to the ruling party as if they can\u2019t survive in politics without being in power. Indeed, in 2023, a PDP leader, Elder Emmanuel Ogidi, said: \u201cPDP doesn\u2019t know how to play opposition\u201d, implying that the party was only good with power. But a party that can\u2019t do opposition is not fit to govern, because it\u2019s how a party performs in opposition that shows whether or not to entrust it with power.<\/p>\n

In genuine democracies, political parties lose and gain powers. For instance, in the UK, power oscillates between Conservatives and Labour, each winning and losing elections, and then winning again. Similarly, in the US, power alternates between Republicans and Democrats, each winning and losing elections, and then winning again! Even in nearby Ghana, the New Patriotic Party, NPP, and the National Democratic Congress, NDC, have alternated power since 1992. Neither is cannibalised by the other after a loss. Rather, after losing power, each party picks itself up and fights its way back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that only happens where political parties are grounded in ideologies, values and principles. In Nigeria, ideologies, values and principles play absolutely no role in party formation; rather, political parties are mere personality-driven vehicles for capturing power. As a result, once a party loses power its members are like fish out of water; they can\u2019t stand being in opposition. Hence, opposition politicians readily defect to the ruling party at the drop of a hat, turning turncoatism into an art form.<\/p>\n

Yet things only got worse under the current so-called Fourth Republic (1999 to present). There were some stickiness of party loyalty and some ideological orientation during the First Republic (1960 to 1966) and the Second Republic (1979 to 1983). However, when Nigeria returned to civil rule in 1999, the then ruling party, PDP, an ideology-free party of vested interests, introduced fickleness of party loyalty into Nigerian politics. Truth is, the brokenness of politics in Nigeria today largely has its roots in PDP\u2019s origin and evolution.<\/p>\n

History matters. And to understand PDP and its role in Nigerian politics, we must understand the circumstances of its birth. For, given the nature of its birth, PDP is a strange party. The party is called Peoples Democratic Party, but it\u2019s neither people-oriented (it\u2019s long been dominated by selfish politicians) nor democratic (it\u2019s never had internal democracy). Indeed, PDP was formed by former military leaders to achieve their selfish ambitions. The seeds of its demise were thus sown at its birth.<\/p>\n

In his book, Vindication of a General, Ishaya Bamaiyi, a former chief of army staff, wrote that, long before the 1999 presidential election, the then military head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, had agreed with Generals Ibrahim Babangida, TY Danjuma and Aliyu Gusau to hand over to General Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview with Premium Times in 2013, Dr Alex Ekwueme, a former vice-president, more or less corroborated Bamaiyi\u2019s story when he said that the military imposed Obasanjo as PDP\u2019s presidential candidate in 1998. Dr Ekwueme said that although Obasanjo didn\u2019t meet the party\u2019s condition that a presidential aspirant must have won his local government in the earlier local government elections, the military waived the rule to ease his way into the presidency.<\/p>\n

In 2017, General Babangida confirmed the military\u2019s role in PDP\u2019s birth. During a visit by some PDP chieftains, Babangida said: \u201cFrom the foundation stage, I saw PDP as the IRA (the Irish Republican Army). We are the military wing of the PDP.\u201d He added: \u201cWhen I say \u2018we\u2019, I mean my boss TY Danjuma, Obasanjo, General Aliyu Mohammed and others. I term us as IRA \u2013 the military wing of PDP.\u201d It\u2019s an oxymoron, an oddity, for a political party to have a military pedigree and a \u201cmilitary wing\u201d in a true democracy. Little wonder Obasanjo ran PDP as if it was his military command; little wonder he wanted to change the Constitution to do a third term as president; and little wonder he autocratically hand-picked and imposed Umaru Yar\u2019Adua as his successor and Goodluck Jonathan as the running mate, facilitating his transition to the presidency after Yar\u2019 Adua\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

But PDP did not have democratic epiphany under civilian leadership. Selfishness, disloyalty and hubris defined its civilian leaders from Jonathan to Atiku Abubakar to Wike. Take Jonathan. After succeeding Yar\u2019Adua in a politically-tensed circumstance, he promised to do only one term but reneged. Had he kept the promise, PDP would not have split irredeemably in 2015. What about the G5 governors and other leaders, such as Atiku and Bukola Saraki, who deserted the party ahead of the 2015 presidential election? Tell me, would there have been an APC government without PDP? It\u2019s often said that Tinubu made Muhammadu Buhari president in 2015. Yet Tinubu\u2019s South-West only gave Buhari 2.4mn votes, allowing him to reach 15.4mn and beat Jonathan, who had 12.8mn. Due to defections and internal convulsion, PDP lost eight Northern states it won in 2011. Imagine if it had not lost those eight states, perhaps their votes would have cancelled out the 2.4mn votes Tinubu gave Buhari from the South-West. What about 2023? Would Tinubu have won if PDP had not splintered as it did in 2015, given that he only beat PDP\u2019s Atiku by 1.8mn, despite his Muslim-Muslim ticket.<\/p>\n

So, arguably, PDP brought APC to power in 2015 and in 2023. Napoleon famously said: \u201cNever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.\u201d Well, Tinubu is not only allowing PDP\u2019s genetic disposition to destroy it, but he\u2019s also fuelling the party\u2019s destruction from outside using Wike. According to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Wike vowed to \u201chold PDP down\u201d for Tinubu in 2027. Perversely, INEC and the judiciary are seemingly playing Wike\u2019s script, to keep PDP lifeless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To mimic Shakespeare, the fault, dear PDP, is not in your enemy, but in yourself: in your members\u2019 political whoredom and, hence, your failure to provide credible and formidable opposition to help strengthen Nigeria\u2019s democracy. It\u2019s a disservice to Nigeria, a national betrayal. But parties have no automatic right to exist, and the vultures are always circling. Truth is, if PDP, a ruling party for 16 years, fields no credible candidate in next year\u2019s presidential election, it will die \u2013 deservedly!\u00a0<\/p>\n

*Dr Fasan is the author of \u2018In The National Interest: The Road to Nigeria\u2019s Political, Economic and Social Transformation\u2019, available at RovingHeights bookstores.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Peoples Democratic Party,\u00a0PDP, is comatose on a deathbed; it\u2019s on life support. The doctors (INEC and the judiciary) are colluding to switch off the life-support machine. They believe the party needs euthanasia or assisted suicide. Yet, what\u2019s really needed is to remove the external factors that interacted with PDP\u2019s genetic predisposition to cause its [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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