A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu, has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying the party is “dangerously sinking.”
Okechukwu, the immediate past Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, made the comment while responding to the former Senate President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, Senator Adolphus Wabara.
The PDP BoT Chairman had vowed that any attempt by the ruling APC to turn Nigeria into a one-party state would be vigorously resisted.
Wabara’s statement is coming as a former Imo state governor. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Chuka Odom, and myriads of others resigned their membership of the PDP.
However, Okechukwu, in a statement on Sunday, stated that the blame game dished out to the APC by Senator Wabara is misplaced.
He maintained 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, “therefore PDP should earnestly introspect on how best to pick the pieces of the party that is dangerously sinking.”
He said that “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 squandermania, the PDP most times arrogantly hauled unnecessary blame game on the APC.”
“Truly, PDP needs soul searching to make amends rather than sweeping its troubled faction under the carpet,” he added.
