It is no longer news that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is being rocked by sustained crisis at states’ and regional levels.
This is more worrisome because the party appears to have slipped back into trouble, barely three months after the Supreme Court resolved its leadership tussle.
The crises are coming up head of the party’s December 9, 2017 national convention that will produce its new set of leaders.
Presently, the party is battling to resolve crises in at least six states where the congresses for the election of delegates and state council executives have thrown up problems.
For now, the troubled state chapters include Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Adamawa, Zamfara and Gombe. The congress is yet to hold in Lagos where the party is also divided.
The party held parallel congresses in Oyo and Ogun states. Two factions were, along the line, locked in a bitter struggle to take over the secretariat in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
On the other hand, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been busy making jest and mocking PDP.
Observers have noted that these actions by APC are ill timed because it has its own inherent internal crises even thought they have not started to seriously manifest.
It must be noted that the fact that the two foremost political parties are being rocked by real and perceived crisis indicates that Nigerian politicians are yet to learn and are not interested in protecting and promoting the interests of the teeming masses.
Now is the time for them to amend their ways so that the nation’s hard-earned democracy is not be truncated.
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
