A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has declared it is time to “bid the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) goodbye,” citing what he described as the opposition party’s steady decline due to internal impunity.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Okechukwu, a public relations consultant and former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), said the PDP is “dangerously sliding from a major to a minor political party.”
He recalled that with the formation of the APC in 2013, many had hoped for a vibrant two-party system that would ensure competitive democracy and strong governance.
“I am not a fan of a one-party system,” Okechukwu stated, “but sincerely, the APC doesn’t need to operate in a one-party system to win elections,” citing the party’s victories in the 2015, 2019, and 2023 general elections.
The APC chieftain lamented the PDP’s failure to uphold the zoning principle of power rotation between the North and South, which he said was a key democratic safeguard adopted in 1999.
“In fact, I was among those who cried out when the PDP violently breached the rotation convention of the presidency. The outcome is the disintegration of the party—for he who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind,” he said.
On Nigeria’s current economic challenges, Okechukwu maintained that the APC’s ongoing economic reforms will ultimately fix the economy and deliver “Gross National Happiness” to Nigerians.
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