The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party is showing no sign of abating. Ahead of the 2027 election, the PDP will have itself to blame if party leaders currently engulfed in a battle of supremacy, fail to give peace a chance. DIRISU YAKUBU reports

Ever since it lost power at the centre in 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party has been struggling to regain the fame that once made it arguably the biggest political party in Africa. Shackled by the chains of its forging, the once-dominant party’s fortunes are at an all-time low, even as some political pundits now see the Labour Party as a more potent opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress than the PDP.

Left with 13 states after the 2023 general election, the PDP in the 2024 off-season election, lost Edo to the APC and failed to wrest Ondo from the APC, despite the crisis occasioned in the party following the death of former Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.

Earlier in the week, a former PDP member and erstwhile Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, had this to say about the once-dominant political platform which held sway at the centre from 1999 to 2015: “There are internal mercenaries in the PDP, hired and motivated to destroy the party.”

He then called on the opposition, with PDP in the forefront, to bury its differences and forge a common front to ward off the possible return of the military in the political governance of the country.

“We have to put aside our differences and create a broad platform that will do the driving of the military again, because we are almost there again,” he added.

Considering the crisis in the PDP Rivers State chapter featuring Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on the one hand and the chaos in the NWC on the other, it is difficult, if not impossible, to fault the position of El-Rufai.

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