A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Deji Adeyanju, has called on the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Governor Aminu Tambuwal and other founding members of the PDP who had defected to other political parties to consider returning to the PDP as an indispensable option to salvaging the country from its current travails.
Adeyanju who made the call in a 15 paragraphed statement attributed current challenges confronting the party to its abandonment by its founding fathers who he said are ill-treated in their current political parties.
According to him ‘’there are myriad of reasons why one may argue that these men should return to PDP. For one, most of them were founding members of the party. Most understand its ethos and ideology.
‘’As it stands, they currently find themselves in the APC where they struggle to acclimatise to the variances between the more democratic ideologies they were used to in PDP and the total control exercised by Bola Tinubu in the ACN wing of APC and the cult followership given to President Muhammadu Buhari by the CPC wing.
‘’In many ways, their abandonment of the party has led to its current travails. In many ways, the abandonment of the party by these founding fathers has caused it to lose its very soul and essence.
He argued that the return of these men to the PDP fold is essential not only for its survival but for the survival of the country.
‘’Once you consider that President Buhari presides over Nigeria at its most fractured state since the Civil War and does not have the right sort of temperament to reunite the country, you will see the altruistic need for these men to return to PDP as a means of building the virile opposition that the country needs.
‘’Having enjoyed many benefits from PDP, these men owe the party – and indeed the rest of the country – an obligation to return and ensure the party does not die. This is the only way to secure a viable opposition to the ruling party and prevent the establishment of a one party state’’ he argued.
