Past mistakes haunting PDP – Okupe

 

Erstwhile Special Adviser on Public Affairs to former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is today facing challenges created from its past mistakes.

Okupe noted that the current crises rocking the party were due to the party’s failure to prepare for life after power.

The former Special Adviser who was a guest on Channels Television breakfast programme yesterday said the lack of cohesiveness on the part of the party’s leaders and its followers had further deepened the crisis.

He said, “The crisis you are seeing today came into play because there was lack of cohesiveness on the part of the leadership and follower-ship and that is why the centre cannot hold and the party is paying seriously for that.

“What you are seeing now are flurry signs and symptoms of failure of leadership. Before we left government or shortly after we left government, people ought to have come together knowing that we were likely going to suffer what is called electoral defeat syndrome, which has become exaggerated in our present circumstances is responsible for this.

“We love our party and we do not want PDP to scatter, even though we lost an election to All Progressives Congress, APC, it was evident that APC will not get its act together and if they do not get their acts together, a third force will emerge and that is the dream of many Nigerians.

“The truth of the matter is that what PDP is suffering today is from the collective actions that we have taken in the past. From our failure to obey our own rules to entrenching impunity as a standard practice in our party; for allowing people to use money to buy offices, to buy candidacy, These are consequences of those actions.”