PDP: WHOSE FAULT? THE FIRST ‘P’ OR THE SECOND ‘P’ (THE PEOPLE OR THE PARTY)

I consider the eminent challenges that the PDP is facing in terms of the massive decamping of its members as a development that should call for reflection rather than celebration. 

 

MY METHOD OF REFLECTION

A few clicks took me to the official website of the PDP with a view to accessing the Party’s constitution. My mission is to study the objectives of the Party and reflect on its merits or otherwise. The objectives thus:

 

a) Promote sustainable development through the provision of sound education, basic health care, food security, rapid industrial growth, adequate housing, full employment and the improvement of infrastructure and basic services;

b) Promote federalism and an equitable revenue sharing formula;

c) Promote the security of life, and property, and enhance family values;

d) Promote self-respect, self-reliance and human dignity;

e) Uphold the integrity and sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as one united indivisible political entity;

f) Promote national integration and the peaceful co-existence of the diverse communities of our country;

g) Promote an egalitarian society founded on freedom, equality and justice.

h) Uphold the independence of the judiciary and the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;  

 

i) Promote learning and research in science and technology and the arts;

j) Assist in the just resolution of local and international disputes;

k) Support the struggle for the rights of children and the physically challenged; and

I) Advance the political, social, educational and economic interests of its members and act as the channel of communication between them, the government and other political parties or associations.

 

ASSESSMENT, CONCLUSION AND POINTER

My personal assessment of the above objectives is that they are noble and comprehensive enough to meet the developmental yearnings and aspirations of Nigeria and Nigerians.

I cannot help concluding that the problem of PDP is not with the Party; rather, the problem with the People who are now massively migrating to the bright alternative that APC tries to provide our dear country.

I equally cannot help concluding, as a pointer, that the same set of people that are destroying the PDP with all its apparently brilliant objectives can do same to any party.