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Mrchippychappy:
It's simple, the ruling party are offering an absolution deal "join us and your sins are forgiven", it's a deal of a lifetime. Of course everyone would hop aboard

No! PDP leaders should look for a way to frustrate Atiku out of the party. Then, normalcy will return.

nairavsdollars:
Nothing is wrong with PDP. Blame Atiku’s greed and arrogance. Period

loud am.

SmartEnergyng:

By One Who Knows That No House Falls From the Outside Without Cracks Within

A gale is sweeping through Nigeria’s opposition — not the gale of power, but of desertion. And no party is bleeding faster than the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Every day, a governor jumps ship. Every week, a senator waves goodbye. And every month, a former stakeholder becomes a latter-day critic.

Yet the PDP’s first instinct is to blame the weather.

“They are being bought,” they say. “They are being threatened.” But when your roof keeps leaking, the question is not about the rain. It’s about your roofing sheet.

Let us speak plainly: what is wrong with PDP is PDP.


It is not Bola Tinubu. It is not the APC. It is not gale, wind, thunder, or political harmattan. It is the simple fact that a party once described as the largest in Africa[b] now behaves like a ship without a compass — and worse, without a captain.
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Leadership is the first casualty. The PDP has not had a moral centre since Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat. The party has drifted from one court case to another, with chairmen fighting like village kinsmen over a chieftaincy title — each faction more concerned with ownership than direction.

When history offered the PDP a golden moment — a chance to learn from its loss in 2015 and rebuild — it chose instead to pretend nothing happened. Like a man who wakes up in a burnt house and still searches for the TV remote.

By 2022, as the APC wrestled with fuel queues and Naira redesigns, the PDP had a golden opportunity to present a credible, united front. Instead, it stumbled into an ethnic war zone of its own making, mishandled zoning, insulted its Southern base, and handed the Labour Party an emotional advantage it never paid for.

And at the centre of this chaos is one man: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar — the perennial contestant, the familiar face on the wrong side of history. Atiku’s insistence on being the “last man standing” has become a bulldozer that crushes internal consensus. Rather than groom successors, he declares himself the only saviour left — like a prophet who refuses to leave the pulpit even as the congregation dwindles.

This is not ambition. It is addiction.

And now, the party groans. Governors leave, not because APC is perfect, but because PDP has lost its flavour. People do not eat saltless stew twice — no matter how nostalgic they are about the recipe.

What PDP needs now is not a press statement. It needs a mirror. It needs to look at its old mistakes: alienating the South, ignoring youth, mishandling internal democracy, running campaigns like inheritance.

Opposition is not a title. It is a discipline. It requires strategy, humility, and reformation. None of which PDP has shown since 2015.

So let the gale of defection blow. Let the rats flee. But when the house collapses completely, let no one blame the storm.

The termites were already inside.

In Nigerian politics there is no permanent friend or foe but permanent interest.
If a politician's interest is not achievable in PDP, the politician is at liberty to defect to either APC or LP in a bid to achieve his or her interest both at the federal and state levels

PulaPower:
Pdp is presently sick

PDP needs a kidney transplant and it's 50-50 chance

Nothing is wrong with PDP itself. Nigerian politicians are opportunists without ideology so they go where money is flowing. Most of them don’t have a means of livelihood aside politics.

The only thing holding APC together is the fact they are in power and the money is flowing. Should they have lost 2023 elections, these same politicians would have left the party.

kennyz247:
Let's not deceive ourselves,Obi doesn't have the political power to challenge Tininu and APC government..

Not when he is in pdp

atiku wants to run a Northern agenda and a 1 man show but it is doomed. The southerners feel more disrespected by him to the point they are willing to back tinubu.

atiku if he has a sense or moral compass should read the handwriting on the wall... Peter Obi will not betray the south to be his running mate at this point. I highly doubt that.

SmartEnergyng:

By One Who Knows That No House Falls From the Outside Without Cracks Within

A gale is sweeping through Nigeria’s opposition — not the gale of power, but of desertion. And no party is bleeding faster than the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Every day, a governor jumps ship. Every week, a senator waves goodbye. And every month, a former stakeholder becomes a latter-day critic.

Yet the PDP’s first instinct is to blame the weather.

“They are being bought,” they say. “They are being threatened.” But when your roof keeps leaking, the question is not about the rain. It’s about your roofing sheet.

Let us speak plainly: what is wrong with PDP is PDP.


It is not Bola Tinubu. It is not the APC. It is not gale, wind, thunder, or political harmattan. It is the simple fact that a party once described as the largest in Africa[b] now behaves like a ship without a compass — and worse, without a captain.
[/b]
Leadership is the first casualty. The PDP has not had a moral centre since Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat. The party has drifted from one court case to another, with chairmen fighting like village kinsmen over a chieftaincy title — each faction more concerned with ownership than direction.

When history offered the PDP a golden moment — a chance to learn from its loss in 2015 and rebuild — it chose instead to pretend nothing happened. Like a man who wakes up in a burnt house and still searches for the TV remote.

By 2022, as the APC wrestled with fuel queues and Naira redesigns, the PDP had a golden opportunity to present a credible, united front. Instead, it stumbled into an ethnic war zone of its own making, mishandled zoning, insulted its Southern base, and handed the Labour Party an emotional advantage it never paid for.

And at the centre of this chaos is one man: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar — the perennial contestant, the familiar face on the wrong side of history. Atiku’s insistence on being the “last man standing” has become a bulldozer that crushes internal consensus. Rather than groom successors, he declares himself the only saviour left — like a prophet who refuses to leave the pulpit even as the congregation dwindles.

This is not ambition. It is addiction.

And now, the party groans. Governors leave, not because APC is perfect, but because PDP has lost its flavour. People do not eat saltless stew twice — no matter how nostalgic they are about the recipe.

What PDP needs now is not a press statement. It needs a mirror. It needs to look at its old mistakes: alienating the South, ignoring youth, mishandling internal democracy, running campaigns like inheritance.

Opposition is not a title. It is a discipline. It requires strategy, humility, and reformation. None of which PDP has shown since 2015.

So let the gale of defection blow. Let the rats flee. But when the house collapses completely, let no one blame the storm.

The termites were already inside.

You forgot to add:


This post is sponsored by Wike and G5

Bobbyjay001:
No! PDP leaders should look for a way to frustrate Atiku out of the party. Then, normalcy will return.

You wrote Atiku instead of Wike

MANDIPUTIN:
These are the fingers behind the crisis in PDP & Labour Party, supported by INEC!
Who is afraid of PDP & Labour Party.

It's only a lazy workman that blames his too. He will never see anything wrong with his own self. PDP that has been having problems since inception. How did all past National chairmen of the party left office? Was it Ganduje that made Atiku to defect in 2007 and 2014? Check your life

Political kids and wike goons on this thread.

Atiku is the only thread keeping PDP together.

Wike is the problem and the only reason PDP is facing issues.

Wike is controlling the party from APC. If you say Atiku is the problem...is there Atiku in NNPP and LP as well?

Why are they also facing defections anf crises like PDP?

Tinubu is using factions to scatter parties....who is he using in PDP?

Atiku is the only person that can challenge Tinubu with his northern backing. Hence why Tinubu is bent of atrtacking his credibility

Whoever you chose as the answer is the person to leave if PDP is to have peace.

SensetionalGoal:
Yes , Atiku should allow Obi to pick the pdp presidential ticket is anything wrong with that

So Obi should go back to PDP again? So even with his so called popularity,he cannot organize Labor party and make it bigger? So he should also become a serial defector like his mentor, Atiku? Kikikikikkikikikiki!

SensetionalGoal:
Not when he is in pdp

PDP wey don scattered already?

Britishpea:
Nigerian politicians thrive with money and on money. They can’t stay two years without power or align with power.

APC had Tinubu who had a vision to become the president one day and believed in his strategy thus he was ready to be funding the party.

PDP has no one with strong vision. Atiku himself doesn’t believe he can win elections so he can’t spend much for the party. Amaechi and Bukola Saraki can’t spend such money.

Wike as the one funding them and he’s now a rogue.

Thus, they have no stronghold on the leadership or who becomes the leader. They are not respected within the party. This and more is the reason you see the party eroding.

Thank you for your observations. While it's true that money plays a significant role in Nigerian politics—as it does in many democracies—the assertion that political relevance is solely sustained by financial capacity oversimplifies a much deeper issue.

Political endurance and party strength are not merely a function of who spends the most. Vision, ideology, internal democracy, strategic planning, and public trust are far more sustainable pillars of influence. Tinubu’s rise, for instance, was not just about funding—it involved building alliances, negotiating interests, and maintaining a long-term political strategy. Reducing it only to money overlooks the complexity of political capital.

PDP’s current challenges go beyond funding. A party’s decline often reflects internal disunity, lack of ideological cohesion, and absence of clear leadership—not just the withdrawal of financial sponsors. Atiku, Saraki, and Amaechi may not play the same financial role as Tinubu did, but leadership should not be measured only by how much one spends. In fact, parties built solely around wealthy individuals often become unstable when those individuals fall out of favor or pursue personal interests over party objectives—something we are seeing across multiple platforms.

Furthermore, describing Wike as a "rogue" ignores the broader issue of structural weakness in party discipline and accountability. When institutions are strong, no individual can singlehandedly capture or derail a party.

If we want Nigeria’s political space to mature, we must move beyond the narrative that power belongs to the highest spender. We need to emphasize institutions over personalities, and vision over vaults.

fidelisbaba:
Wike's apparent arrogance is the main cause for the fall of PDP

But he used same Arogance to hold d party together from post 2015 untill now. U didn't question it

Mrchippychappy:
It's simple, the ruling party are offering an absolution deal "join us and your sins are forgiven", it's a deal of a lifetime. Of course everyone would hop aboard

The same deal was offered in 2023? So all prominent members of PDP are sinners? You failed to deal with the enemy within and you are accusing the enemy outside. Continue....

Nothing is really weong with PDP. Its d politicians dat are shameless and hungry. Dey go were dey will get food to eat. Dey dont care about their party dey only care about wat dey will get.

Two things are happening to pdp
1. Atiku's greed
2. Lots of blackmailing and propaganda by the APC

Curious345:
APC is foreign and un-Nigerian

foreign how
Name one foreigner in apc

PulaPower:
Pdp is presently sick

presently?

victorazyvictor:
Atiku is wrong with them.

without atiku they cease to exist

sucess001:
You wrote Atiku instead of Wike

Wike isn't PDP's problem

Bobbyjay001:
Wike isn't PDP's problem

Lol. Joker.

Tartasbags:
Two things are happening to pdp
1. Atiku's greed
2. Lots of blackmailing and propaganda by the APC

I sight you Wikes goons.

Atikunis the problem because he is the one openly working against PDP?

MakindeHassan:
Nothing is wrong with PDP itself. Nigerian politicians are opportunists without ideology so they go where money is flowing. Most of them don’t have a means of livelihood aside politics.

The only thing holding APC together is the fact they are in power and the money is flowing. Should they have lost 2023 elections, these same politicians would have left the party.

Very simple and plain.

I dislike Wike totally, but I believe if Atiku can give someone else chance, pdp may come out with something good.
Everyone knows that Wike is apc in disguise, hence others need to outsmart him for them to win in the next election, because they know those that are working for him as well but due to their individual selfish interests, they may not be able to do anything.

sucess001:
I sight you Wikes goons.

Atikunis the problem because he is the one openly working against PDP?

Tartasbags:
I dislike Wike totally, but I believe if Atiku can give someone else chance, pdp may come out with something good.
Everyone knows that Wike is apc in disguise, hence others need to outsmart him for them to win in the next election, because they know those that are working for him as well but due to their individual selfish interests, they may not be able to do anything.

Atikunis the single biggest threat to APC. PO is the next biggest threat. They know this. Them teaming up is a tsunami