PDP cannot provide quality opposition
The PDP has spent much of the last 100 days pointing accusing fingers and advancing reasons why it lost the 2015 presidential elections rather than providing quality opposition – something that even prior to PDP has been lacking in Nigerian politics.
Notable PDP big-wigs have taken turns to open up on why the PDP lost power. The latest to do so was the current Acting BOT Chairman of the party and former Minister of Defence, Alhaji Bello Halliru. Halliru, while addressing the Senator Ike Ekweremadu-led PDP revamping committee, said the party lost because it violated its zoning policy in 2011. This is indirectly saying PDP lost because it fielded Jonathan.
Many PDP stalwarts have confessed that the party lost because of either Patience Jonathan, Jonathan campaign handlers or Jonathan himself. So PDP knew what was right but refused to do it; they knew fielding Jonathan was suicide, but they went ahead and did it?
Many pundits believe that the real issues for debates and opposition to Buhari’s government will begin after he might have spent six months to one year in office. Unfortunately PDP has spent a substantial part of its energy on trivial issues, so one wonders how much of its energy will be left when the real issues begin. The party ruled for 16 years and it may spend the next 16 years as an opposition party if it survives that long.
