{"id":161327,"date":"2025-05-05T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-sliding-from-major-to-minor-party-osita-okechukwu"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:24:01","slug":"pdp-sliding-from-major-to-minor-party-osita-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-sliding-from-major-to-minor-party-osita-okechukwu","title":{"rendered":"PDP sliding from major to minor party \u2013 Osita Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday said it\u2019s time to \u201cbid the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, goodbye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu, a Public Relations Consultant, said the PDP is \u201cdangerously sliding from major to minor political party\u201d due to self induced impunity.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Abuja, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, lamented that with \u201cthe birth of the APC in 2013, some of us had hoped that Nigeria was heading to intense rivalry between two formidable political parties, which is the hallmark of advanced multiparty system in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu also noted that he is not a fan of one party system, adding that \u201csincerely APC doesn\u2019t need to operate in one party system to win elections\u201d, citing the 2015, 2019 and 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that what true democrats want is a formidable PDP, to provide checks and balances in the polity and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity, not a weak coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact one was in league with those who cried out, when PDP violently breached the rotation convention of president from north to south and vice versa, a toolkit conceived by patriots in 1999 for peace, unity and good health of our democracy and dear country and Section 7 of their constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome is the disintegration of the party, for he who cultivated ill wind will surely reap whirlwind.\u201d Okechukwu opined.<\/p>\n<p>On the hardship in Nigeria, Okechukwu said that the APC in the full cycle of economic reforms will fix the economy and provide Nigerians Gross National happiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday said it\u2019s time to \u201cbid the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, goodbye\u201d. Okechukwu, a Public Relations Consultant, said the PDP is \u201cdangerously sliding from major to minor political party\u201d due to self induced impunity. 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