If what is going on now in the political landscape is anything to go by, Nigerians should gird their loins for the danger ahead as Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders get desperate over next month’s Presidential election. There is total disquiet and confusion in the house of PDP as events of 2015 draw near, and the centre can no longer hold in the house of a party that once described itself as the biggest party in Africa.
I had alerted Nigerians during the formative stages of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that PDP will not go down without a fight given the unparalleled attacks and bombs thrown at the progenitors of APC in those days. A party that says it will rule Nigeria for 60 years is now gasping for breath and fighting for survival. How are the mighty fallen?
Open the pages of newspapers you will see endorsements upon endorsements for candidate, GMB. The House called PDP is giving way gradually, it is going down gradually, it is collapsing systematically and it is sinking slowly.
In Port Harcourt during the flag off of Buhari’s presidential campaigns, one person was feared dead and many others seriously injured when armed youths shot at vehicles moving supporters of APC to the venue. In Lagos PDP has been allegedly training thugs in the name of FERMA, for the task ahead. In Niger Delta, ex-militant leaders are allegedly warming up for the showdown if President Jonathan fails to make it in February 14 Presidential election. Across the country the stories are no less different.
General Buhari of 2003, 2007 and 2011 is no longer the same Buhari in 2015. Buhari in 2015 has become dynamite, an explosive, a game changer, a fortress, a smoking gun, an avatar, the numero uno, the political bulldozer, the caterpillar; a hurricane and a colossus. To ignore the GMB massive movement now is to play to the gallery, to dismiss his build up now is to tell a lie to yourself, and to set aside his potentials now is to be economical with the truth. Calculations, equations, permutations have changed and they are turning almost 360 degrees. It is a complete turn around. The momentum is there. The speed is there, the dynamism is there and the force is there also. All of the above explain PDP’s desperation.
Joe Igbokwe,
Lagos
