Hehehe...The Senior Special Assistant to former
President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says the
Peoples Democratic Party may soon die.
The former presidential spokesman said the PDP might go into extinction soon except the party undergoes a complete overhaul.
Okupe said this in a Facebook post on Thursday.
He commended the PDP for the formation of a body headed by Chief Raymond Dokpesi to increase its membership.
He, however, stressed that the PDP must embark on a complete overhaul if it must remain relevant in the next four years.
He said, “The time has come for the PDP,
if it must remain politically relevant, to embark on a total overhaul
and reform itself. It must engage Nigerians in a new coalition for the
sole purpose of putting our dear country on the path to true, real and
the enduring change that will, once and for, all establish us as a major
global player, not pretenders that we presently are.
“The PDP must reform lest it dies, God forbids, a painful and insidious death.”
Okupe said he feared that the PDP might soon die due to its declining acceptability.
He, however, said the All Progressives
Congress-led Federal Government had been able to twist the minds of
Nigerians such that the PDP appeared as a corrupt party.
He noted that overtime, Nigerians would see that the APC and the PDP are the same.
He said, “The party (PDP) has suffered
very serious bashing from the sustained avalanche of assaults from the
gigantic propaganda machinery of the now ruling party — the APC.
“The credibility of the party as a
veritable political alternative to the APC has been nearly irreparably
damaged. Some of the recent disclosures and more that may come up from
the impending probes will further damage the national acceptability of
the party.
“At the end of the day, the APC may not
meet the expectations of Nigerians or may, in fact, fail outright over
time but the PDP, as it is presently constituted, will not be an
acceptable alternative to the majority of Nigerians now or in the
future.”
Okupe, who was one of President Muhammadu
Buhari’s biggest critics during the run-up to the last presidential
election, said both the APC and the PDP lacked ideologies and proper
leaders.
He said while the PDP was created as a
coalition to wrest power from the military, the APC was a merger of
several interest groups set up to wrest power from the PDP.
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