Okechukwu bids PDP goodbye, says it’s becoming minor party
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has said that asides from the economic hardship, the other worrisome matter is the slide of the PDP from major to minor political party.
Okechukwu told journalists in Abuja on Sunday that the party’s downfall was caused by what he called self-induced impunity.
The public relations consultant and foundation member of APC regrettably bid PDP goodbye and lamented that with the birth of the APC in 2013 some persons, including himself, had hoped that Nigeria was heading to intense rivalry between two formidable political parties, which is the hallmark of advanced multiparty system in the world.
Okechukwu said he was not a fan of one-party system and that APC does not need to operate in a one-party system to win elections; citing 2015, 2019 and 2023 general elections.
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Okechukwu said that what true democrats want is a formidable PDP, not a weak coalition, which will act as checks and balances and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity.
“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,” he said.
On the economic hardship in the land, he said that APC in the full cycle of economic reforms will fix the economy and provide Nigerians what he termed gross national happiness.
