PDP May Soon Die - Doyin Okupe

The Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has said that he fears the Peoples Democratic Party may soon die a painful and insidious death. Except the party undergoes a complete overhaul.

According to him, 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 however noted that overtime, Nigerians would see that the APC and the PDP are the same.

While commending the PDP for the formation of a body headed by Chief Raymond Dokpesi to increase its membership, Doyin stressed that the PDP must embark on a complete overhaul if it must remain relevant in the next four years.

Writing on Facebook, Doyin said:

It was a great news to hear the formation of a body to drive the mobilisation of members of the PDP under the distinguished leadership of High Chief Dokpesi.
I personally felt good that at last some people were thinking of the future of the party.
However I sincerely do not think mobilisation is the immediate thing the Pdp needs now. 

The party has suffered very serious bashing if not bastadisation 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 up the expectations of Nigerians or may in fact fail out rightly over time but the pdp as it is presently constituted will not be an acceptable alternative to majority of Nigerians now or in future.
The APC and the PDP has become two sides of the same coin.  

No clear philosophy. No ideology or central motivating theme. No clear policy objectives. No true leadership. No defining party character or style. Only contestants, aspirants and office seekers
No party discipline, pedigree or ethics. 

The truth is that some people put together a strong coalition to wrestle power from the military. That coalition gave birth to PDP which held the power for 16years until some other people put up another coalition for the sole purpose of wrestling power from pdp. This they successfully did in march 2015. 

The time has come for the PDP, if it must remain politically relevant, to total overhaul and REFORM itself, engage Nigerians in a new coalition for the sole purpose of putting our dear country on the true path to the 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.