A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday, said the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has diminished from a major to a minor opposition party.
Okechukwu, a Public Relations Consultant, made the assertion while addressing journalists in Abuja, blaming the development on impunity.
He expressed worry that apart from the economic hardship facing Nigeria, “the other worrisome matter is the dangerous slide of PDP from major to minor political party, consequent upon self induced impunity.”
He regrettably bid PDP goodBye and lamented that with the birth of the APC in 2013 “some of us had hoped that Nigeria was heading to intense rivalry between two formidable political parties, which is the hallmark of the advanced multi-party system in the world.”
On why he is lamenting the slide of the PDP to minor party, when his party the APC will be the foremost beneficiary of the looming one party system, Okechukwu replied that he was not a fan of one party system, and that “sincerely APC doesn’t need to operate in one party system to win elections; citing 2015, 2019 and 2023 general elections.
He said that “what true democrats want is a formidable PDP which will act as checks and balances and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity, not a weak coalition.
“In fact one was in league with those who cried out, when PDP violently breached the rotation convention of president from north to south and vice versa, a toolkit conceived by patriots in 1999 for peace, unity and good health of our democracy and dear country and Section 7 of their constitution.
“The outcome is the disintegration of the party, for he who cultivated ill wind will surely reap whirlwind.”
On the economic hardship in the land, he was optimistic that the APC in the full cycle of economic reforms would fix the economy and provide Nigerians what he called “Gross National Happiness”.