Alliance for Democracy (AD) at that time? If APC is destroying the PDP, it means we submitted ourselves to their destruction be­cause we cannot be united and an outsider will destroy us. Nobody but we the PDP are the ones de­stroying ourselves. We have to absolve the president from this and anyone telling you that Tinu­bu or the APC is the one destroy­ing the PDP is not telling you the truth. How can you say that? Can you prove it that APC is the one destroying the PDP. Like I said early, were we destroying the Alliance for Democracy when we were in power? If any party is committed and vibrant, no one will destroy it. PDP should come back and have a self-check on what is wrong. Did APC ask PDP not to criticise them now? Did APC ask PDP not to correct their errors? When PDP was in government under Jonathan, was it not the same PDP that destroyed itself, leading to the 2015 election? If APC is destroy­ing PDP today as they claim, it is because we allow them, and the blame should go to who allows and not who destroys. It is not the APC that caused factional­isation in PDP; if they caused it, we sold ourselves to them and we should blame ourselves and not them.

In all these, 2027 is very close; what is PDP doing to mount serious challeng­es for the presidency?

I have written a lot on this; un­til you give a voice to very com­mitted and long term member to chart a course for this party, we are not going anywhere. Until proper chieftains of the party with interest in repositioning the PDP are given the opportu­nity, we are not going anywhere in all honesty. Let’s come out of our shells, let’s come out of our silence because we have been si­lent for too long. PDP members at the state and national levels have been silent for too long and allow those without the party’s interest to damage things. We have been silent for too long and it is high time we stopped being silent on the affairs of this party. Our con­tinued silence has made people read us and say we are working for APC. Let’s be frank here, it’s not fair, brother. They know what to do if they want to do it.

Some people have expressed fear that based on what is going on in PDP, the party may not field a pres­idential candidate in 2027 if they continue on this trajectory. Do you think it’s possible?

Let me tell you, Onuesoke is going for the presidential ticket of the PDP. We are going to field candidates who are capable of rescuing Nigeria, like myself. I’m contemplating doing it. I have the funds to take the ticket. I won’t have to solicit for money to get the ticket. I have been making consultations with my friends, especially in the north. Yes, I am going in for the presidency. I’m going in for the presidency un­der the PDP. If they are so afraid of the APC, Onuesoke has embarked on national consultations. I spent almost six weeks before Christmas in the north. I met my friends. I met a lot of my friends there. I’m qualified to be the presidential can­didate of the PDP and also qualified to be the president. I have consulted my friends. I just left Adamawa. I went to Kogi and several places in the north, and I can tell you that the responses I have been getting is encouraging. I have even met a lot of guys in the east who are very interested. I can tell you that a lot of people in the PDP are also very interested in the ticket. I’m going to do my declaration in Abuja soon and the committee is also going to be set up soon because I have embarked on wider consultations. My friends, a lot of them, are coming from the north, from the east and they are men with ideologies, apart from huge financial strength. We need to have a paradigm shift for good in Ni­geria. We’re going to paint Abuja blue with my posters. It mustn’t be about the money bags all the time.

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