The New PDP (nPDP) And Their Chances

[Shola Sholaz]

THE breakaway of a faction has lifted the whole power play in the PDP party to a new crescendo. The stake is upped and each one is fighting for its own survival. The way the situation is now, it is either going to be a zero sum game, where the winner takes all or the loser crashes. In the alternative, a much more subdued PDP will emerge. The situation is already creating orgasmic reactions from the opposition parties.
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How did things get to this sorry pass? The seed has been sown right from the time of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo as president of the country. Arbitrariness was the order of the day. People were appointed and removed at the whims of those in authority.
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During Obasanjo's tenure alone, the PDP had five chairmen of the party and five Senate presidents within eight years – indeed a world record. In the process, so many members were alienated.
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The same methods were used to impose Yar'Adua and Jonathan as president and vice president, respectively. Many of them, including Atiku, left for other parties. The short span of Yar'Adua's reign did not allow us to assess the extent he would have gone in the use of presidential powers but a few people like El- Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu got a taste of it.
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Jonathan came as a gentleman, ready to compromise with everybody, unfortunately, already aggrieved members, having learnt their lessons under Obasanjo, plotted to regain control of the PDP.
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Jonathan does not have the military background and ruthlessness of Obasanjo and in attempting to use Obasanjo's strategies to make the party toe the line, he is finding great resistance. That is the situation of the PDP.

[Folami David]

This whole chances thing is something we look forward to knowing. No one knows how the whole thing will end @ last. PDP is just a controversial political party!

[Folami David]

They are still the rulling party when it comes to elections for presideny in Nigeria so well, So let's see what will Gov unfold in recent ?