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By One Who Knows That No House Falls From the Outside Without Cracks Within

A gale is sweeping through Nigeria’s opposition — not the gale of power, but of desertion. And no party is bleeding faster than the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Every day, a governor jumps ship. Every week, a senator waves goodbye. And every month, a former stakeholder becomes a latter-day critic.

Yet the PDP’s first instinct is to blame the weather.

“They are being bought,” they say. “They are being threatened.” But when your roof keeps leaking, the question is not about the rain. It’s about your roofing sheet.

Let us speak plainly: what is wrong with PDP is PDP.


It is not Bola Tinubu. It is not the APC. It is not gale, wind, thunder, or political harmattan. It is the simple fact that a party once described as the largest in Africa[b] now behaves like a ship without a com — and worse, without a captain.
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Leadership is the first casualty. The PDP has not had a moral centre since Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat. The party has drifted from one court case to another, with chairmen fighting like village kinsmen over a chieftaincy title — each faction more concerned with ownership than direction.

When history offered the PDP a golden moment — a chance to learn from its loss in 2015 and rebuild — it chose instead to pretend nothing happened. Like a man who wakes up in a burnt house and still searches for the TV remote.

By 2022, as the APC wrestled with fuel queues and Naira redesigns, the PDP had a golden opportunity to present a credible, united front. Instead, it stumbled into an ethnic war zone of its own making, mishandled zoning, insulted its Southern base, and handed the Labour Party an emotional advantage it never paid for.

And at the centre of this chaos is one man: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar — the perennial contestant, the familiar face on the wrong side of history. Atiku’s insistence on being the “last man standing” has become a bulldozer that crushes internal consensus. Rather than groom successors, he declares himself the only saviour left — like a prophet who refuses to leave the pulpit even as the congregation dwindles.

This is not ambition. It is addiction.

And now, the party groans. Governors leave, not because APC is perfect, but because PDP has lost its flavour. People do not eat saltless stew twice — no matter how nostalgic they are about the recipe.

What PDP needs now is not a press statement. It needs a mirror. It needs to look at its old mistakes: alienating the South, ignoring youth, mishandling internal democracy, running campaigns like inheritance.

Opposition is not a title. It is a discipline. It requires strategy, humility, and reformation. None of which PDP has shown since 2015.

So let the gale of defection blow. Let the rats flee. But when the house collapses completely, let no one blame the storm.

The termites were already inside.

APC is foreign and un-Nigerian

Nothing is wrong with PDP. Blame Atiku’s greed and arrogance. Period

Pdp is presently sick

It's simple, the ruling party are offering an absolution deal " us and your sins are forgiven", it's a deal of a lifetime. Of course everyone would hop aboard

There was a time when PDP had 31 States!

PDP is gradually becoming like Nokia and blackberry!

Atiku is wrong with them.

Bad leadership

Tinubu is happening to pdp

Emperor wicked Wike is holding their Balls and Atiku doesn't want to use common sense 👌

Mrchippychappy:
It's simple, the ruling party are offering an absolution deal " us and your sins are forgiven", it's a deal of a lifetime. Of course everyone would hop aboard

you sat in front during the deal.

Let’s not sugarcoat it, PDP isn’t inherently flawed, but it has become politically malnourished after a full decade of APC rule, where access to state machinery, federal contracts, and patronage networks have been ruthlessly monopolized.

10 Years Without Government Access
In Nigerian political calculus, that’s an eternity. Many so-called “honorables” simply cannot sustain relevance, affluence, or influence without the intravenous drip of federal money, padded budgets, and government-sponsored ‘errands.’

Fuel at ₦900, Dollar at ₦1600
This isn’t just economic hardship—it’s systemic deconstruction. Even well-run private businesses are bleeding to death. What chance does an “Excellency” who thrives on constituency allowances, inflated borehole contracts, and photo-ops have?

Asiwaju is using the carrot and stick method, he will starve the hungry weak ones and ask EFCC to pay a visit to the wealthy strong minded ones.

The Coming Defection Avalanche
Watch closely: mass defections will increase, not because of ideological shifts, but out of raw political survival. Like starved lions, they will follow the scent of blood, even if it leads them into enemy territory.

The Real Reform: Demote the Legislature
Until being a Senator or Rep becomes a part-time civic duty (not a multi-billion Naira career), Nigeria’s democracy will continue to operate like an oil-thirsty cartel. Make it part-time, cut the convoy, remove the immunity, and the wheat will separate from the chaff real quick.

Wike and Atiku greed is wrong with PDP. Simple!

Pdp is gone

Wike's apparent arrogance is the main cause for the fall of PDP

Nothing

No clear vision, no unity, just recycled power games. You can’t inspire loyalty with confusion and silence. Until they reconnect with the people and their original values, the defections will keep coming. Nigeria needs strong opposition, not broken promises.

Lol...only Peter Obi cares about Nigerians.

My sincere advise to this party in order to succeed is to emerge with other party.

These are the fingers behind the crisis in PDP & Labour Party, ed by INEC!
Who is afraid of PDP & Labour Party.

S

Atiku's ambition is the problem of PDP.

The day Atiku stops seeing himself as the automatic flag bearer is the day APC will get into trouble.

Northerners tend to seek their own interests consistently. They the PDP (People's Democratic Party) whenever they feel excluded from the APC (All Progressives Congress).

The strategy appears to be to leverage the APC to gain power, then switch to the PDP to maintain that power, creating a cycle that continues over time.

Only .a clown takes defection in Nigerian politics serious, because how can a sensible Nigerian that knows the greed and self-preservation of it's politicians still take those selfish politicians trading one party for another party as serious? For real,how can you be taking Nigerian politicians serious? We ought to be uprooting this thieves from power and not discussing about their rubbish defection.

What is wrong with Apc?
Thats your ruling party

What is wrong with PDP?

1. Atiku is very influential within the PDP, and a lot of PDP Governors and top politicians believe that if they strive and work for PDP, committing resources and power, they would be doing all that for Atiku's benefit, and they do not like Atiku, they are fed up with him.

2. Nyesom Wike has a mission to weaken PDP as much as possible from within, to the benefit of Tinubu. He's a mole and a 5th columnist, The crisis within the NWC is all attributable to Nyesom Wike.

3. A lot of PDP big wigs and Governors are too lazy to play opposition. The want to seat at the table where there is so much available resources from oil subsidy removal. The first term Governors want an easy second term bid and the second term Governors want to be in the good books of Tinubu so that there will be no EFCC visit.
So it's personal ambition over party loyalty.

4. There is no central unifying figure within the PDP, well respected statesman to unify the party.

5. Of course the Tinubu factor, who is tacitly and codedly wooing big opposition by cajolement or coercion.

All about money changing hands. Nothing else.

Mrchippychappy:
It's simple, the ruling party are offering an absolution deal " us and your sins are forgiven", it's a deal of a lifetime. Of course everyone would hop aboard

Very typical of IPOBS...Buhari is jubril of Sudan clone kind of reality.

They create their own happiness and world of virtual reality!


Wake up!

malali:
Let’s not sugarcoat it, PDP isn’t inherently flawed, but it has become politically malnourished after a full decade of APC rule, where access to state machinery, federal contracts, and patronage networks have been ruthlessly monopolized.

10 Years Without Government Access
In Nigerian political calculus, that’s an eternity. Many so-called “honorables” simply cannot sustain relevance, affluence, or influence without the intravenous drip of federal money, padded budgets, and government-sponsored ‘errands.’

Fuel at ₦900, Dollar at ₦1600
This isn’t just economic hardship—it’s systemic deconstruction. Even well-run private businesses are bleeding to death. What chance does an “Excellency” who thrives on constituency allowances, inflated borehole contracts, and photo-ops have?

Asiwaju is using the carrot and stick method, he will starve the hungry weak ones and ask EFCC to pay a visit to the wealthy strong minded ones.

The Coming Defection Avalanche
Watch closely: mass defections will increase, not because of ideological shifts, but out of raw political survival. Like starved lions, they will follow the scent of blood, even if it leads them into enemy territory.

The Real Reform: Demote the Legislature
Until being a Senator or Rep becomes a part-time civic duty (not a multi-billion Naira career), Nigeria’s democracy will continue to operate like an oil-thirsty cartel. Make it part-time, cut the convoy, remove the immunity, and the wheat will separate from the chaff real quick.

Perfectly said.

malali:
Let’s not sugarcoat it, PDP isn’t inherently flawed, but it has become politically malnourished after a full decade of APC rule, where access to state machinery, federal contracts, and patronage networks have been ruthlessly monopolized.

10 Years Without Government Access
In Nigerian political calculus, that’s an eternity. Many so-called “honorables” simply cannot sustain relevance, affluence, or influence without the intravenous drip of federal money, padded budgets, and government-sponsored ‘errands.’

Fuel at ₦900, Dollar at ₦1600
This isn’t just economic hardship—it’s systemic deconstruction. Even well-run private businesses are bleeding to death. What chance does an “Excellency” who thrives on constituency allowances, inflated borehole contracts, and photo-ops have?

Asiwaju is using the carrot and stick method, he will starve the hungry weak ones and ask EFCC to pay a visit to the wealthy strong minded ones.

The Coming Defection Avalanche
Watch closely: mass defections will increase, not because of ideological shifts, but out of raw political survival. Like starved lions, they will follow the scent of blood, even if it leads them into enemy territory.

The Real Reform: Demote the Legislature
Until being a Senator or Rep becomes a part-time civic duty (not a multi-billion Naira career), Nigeria’s democracy will continue to operate like an oil-thirsty cartel. Make it part-time, cut the convoy, remove the immunity, and the wheat will separate from the chaff real quick.

Tell us PDP alternative to 900 petrol and naira at 1600 without returning subsidy and defending naira as promised by their candidates ATIKU and OBI?
These are questions we should be asking not all this emotion manipulation and gaslighting!

We know OBI's own,he had claimed he would devalue naira and start borrowing to defend it again .

What is Atiku alternative??
These are issues!