The Lagos State Chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC says the opposition PDP has been damaged beyond redemption as the party is now headed for extinction. The PDP will soon become irrelevant in the political affairs of the country, the APC said in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo.
His remark comes on the heels of last week PDP National Convention in Ibadan, Oyo state capital, in the quest by some leaders of the embattled party to salvage what is left of it.
Recall that the late Vincent Ogbulafor, a former PDP National Chairman had vowed many years ago, that the party will rule the country for 60 years. As it’s, the party which ruled the country from 1999 and 2015 is seriously battling for its life, as contending groups are in a stiff battle for its soul.
This is more so after watchers of politics in the country contented that the last weekend National Delegates Convention has left the party more polarsied than it had earlier being expected.
Two factions led by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike have clashed over the control of the party, with suspension n and counter-suspension in the mix.
According to the Lagos APC, the PDP has gone deeper into crisis after the Convention saying with the current situation, the once dominant political party in the country cannot recover, and is headed for a total collapse.
To underscore the seriousness of the current crisis, the APC said delegates from 13 states stayed away from the Convention, stating that PDP has become a “collapsing” building that cannot be salvage by any ‘architect”.
Oladejo: “When a party’s own delegates choose absence over association, the diagnosis is clear: the patient is not just unwell; it is clinically unresponsive.”
“To compound the tragedy, the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the event put a final seal on the exercise in futility.
“When the nation’s electoral umpire declines to acknowledge your convention, what remains is nothing but a political gathering stripped of legitimacy, relevance, and meaning.”
He said the PDP has become a problem for the nation’s nascent democracy by failing to tackle its problem successfully, saying the party will soon expire.
According to him, “Rather than confront its deep-rooted failures, leadership rot, ideological emptiness, and years of humiliating electoral defeats, the PDP again demonstrated why Nigerians have decisively moved on.
“what should have symbolised renewal instead confirmed that the party is fast approaching its political expiration date.
”The PDP has now become a danger to our nascent democracy – not because it is strong, but because it has failed woefully to provide the vibrant, responsible, and constructive opposition that can add value, strengthen accountability, and present Nigerians with a viable alternative.
“A democracy without credible opposition is weakened; and the PDP, in its current comatose state, offers nothing but noise without substance.
“As we continue the countdown to the 2027 National Elections, the events ahead promise to be interesting as this comatose, leaderless, and rudderless opposition party navigates nominations for elective positions. Without unnecessarily pre-empting the outcome, it is indeed an endgame.
“The PDP’s internal disarray has already written a preface to its political obituary – the rest is merely a matter of time.”
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