PDP in crisis

I really hope PDP resolve their crisis. What we need in this country is not intra-party rivalry, we need togetherness, bipartisanship. We don't need political parties scheming and fighting each other. Democracy, thus diplomacy, must prevail.

PDP blaming APC of scheming with the ousted National Chairman (Sen. Modu Sheriff) doesn't look good. And APC saying PDP are "paying for their past sins" isn't very diplomatic at all because we are all sinner in that respect. A hypocrite in this case is a sinner who calls another sinner sinner.

The optics are not good. PDP is looking very Southern and APC very Northern. It might not be as accurate, but that's how it looks. A northerner as PDP National Chairman... I knew it wasn't going to last so long. PDP is quite unstable, it seems. But they'd need to get fast on their feet if they're going to give the ruling party a strong challenge.

What does it say about a country in which everyone defects to the ruling party? This isn't democracy. This isn't loyalty. PDP, notwithstanding their past record, must stand strong. Be them thieves, be them hooligans, be them avaricious, they must stand strong. PDP must lick its wound and gear to fight another day.

South vs North... Biafra vs Nigera... we can't keep cocooning these comparisons. Would democracy lead to the division of a country? Isn't that against the philosophy of democracy?

And now there are arrest. the APC government is bring every PDP element to justice using the EFCC. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that 99% of the former ruling PDP are corrupt. It doesn't matter, what matters now is that the arrests and impounding of property looks more like revenge than justice or transparency.

We keep playing this game in this country; one party feels bullied over a long time, and next thing there's a democratic coup (in a manner of speaking). Now PDP looks like the bullied. Give it 10 years thereabout and the bullied become the bully. This shouldn't be the case in a country that strives for development, there should be amicable and recurrent shifts in power.

Look at the U.S.A for example: Democrats rule for some years, and Republicans as per tradition take the mantle of leadership, and on it goes. Because Republicans most times entertain extreme political views doesn't mean they should go extinct. Change in power in the US is a matter of 'tradition'. It is this tradition that Nigeria must inculcate.