Prior to the 2027 election, the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has been criticized by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s coalition group for opposing the merger that would have ousted President Bola Tinubu.
In a statement released on Wednesday and signed by its spokesperson, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, the coalition reportedly stated that the government of the All
APC or the Progressives Congress in 2027.
The PDP governors, according to Lukman, recognized that the party’s crisis could not be resolved, and Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was working for President Tinubu to undermine the party.
The governors’ position, he said, demonstrated that they were organized to act as a force opposing the merger’s success.
Nigerians had been waiting for the PDP to get back up and provide the strong opposition that Nigeria requires for over a decade since the party’s departure from office. The party instead entered suspended animation until the raging APC led by Tinubu found a willing undertaker to ultimately put it to rest.
The PDP’s infection has no known cure, as the governors are aware. All they are doing is feigning. Since the ruling party has clearly taken over the country’s soul, they are aware that Nigerians cannot accept this PDP as an option.
Nyesom Wike is the untouchable super minister in Asiwaju’s administration, not because of the excellent work he is doing in the Federal Capital Territory, but rather because of his excellent work in preventing the PDP from fielding a presidential candidate to run against Tinubu in 2027.
In recent weeks, though, that mandate has been modified in light of the expanding alliance. Reviving the PDP to resist the alliance and fielding a candidate who would split the vote in 2027 is the new strategy. He stated, “This PDP Governors’ Forum expects Nigerians to take them seriously, and they are intentionally or inadvertently playing Asiwaju’s spoiler game.”
Nigeria Reconstruction Is the Coalition’s Goal
The Coalition spokesperson, a former APC chieftain, focused on the fact that Atiku’s proposed merger was intended to rebuild Nigeria.
Lukman claimed that since some PDP members are employed by the current administration, there was no point in investing in the party.
For Nigeria’s benefit, he also offered the PDP governors his fellowship.
“The party’s collapse is demonstrated by the fact that no Nigerian can confidently identify who is actually in charge of the party and that the NEC meeting has not been held in two years,” he added. Governors and other party leaders ought to be concerned about this.
The PDP governors have, regrettably, only blatantly usurped the authority entrusted to the party’s institutions. That’s incorrect. Additionally, it is an unmistakable indication that the PDP governors will only continue to undermine the nation’s democratic institutions if they are allowed to continue.
The problem we face as a country goes beyond romantic ties to so-called political parties like the PDP, many of whose leaders serve as spies for the APC and President Tinubu’s administration. This is something that all patriotic Nigerians who are dedicated to saving Nigerian democracy should acknowledge.
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Putting effort and money into a party whose leaders are either APC government appointees or clandestine supporters is illogical. Otherwise, how can anyone defend the PDP’s and its leaders’ poor self-management, which is essentially setting them on a course to political irrelevance and self-destruction?
The coalition is essentially focused on restoring Nigerian democracy, to be clear. Coalition leaders acknowledge this and, more significantly, all the obstacles that lie ahead. Restoring the importance of political negotiations as essential and fundamental to ensuring the survival of democracy is imperative to resolving these issues and regaining Nigerians’ trust. Both the APC and the PDP have insulted agreements in a number of ways over the years and shown disdain for political talks.
Nigeria’s existence and democracy’s future mostly rest on how political players attempt to change this unpleasant reality. Coalition leaders have been laboriously pursuing this goal. The alliance is putting a lot of effort into concluding talks to reveal the alliance, its composition, and its plan of action for saving Nigeria.
In order to restore Nigerian democracy, it is expected that all political players—including PDP leaders—will acknowledge the threat the nation faces and join the alliance as a vital and possibly most effective reaction. Nothing like this has occurred. But we welcome all political players in the nation to join us in rescuing Nigerian democracy, despite the PDP governors and certain PDP leaders expressing resistance to joining the coalition.
