Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Affairs, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, says the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party has been damaged beyond repairs.
Baba-Ahmed stated this on Thursday while appearing on an Arise Television programme.
The former presidential aide was speaking on Nigeria’s political terrain ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general elections.
Baba-Ahmed said, “The PDP is drifting away. I think it is gone, and I do not believe anyone can fix it. The PDP is not the only party capable of providing a credible opposition to the APC; there is the ADC and others.
“I think that sometimes we blame the government too much and we don’t pay attention to the damage that the PDP, the opposition, has done to itself. The truth about it is that PDP has been on the free fall for a long time.
“These are politicians who held power for a very long time and it turns out that these people never had any experience in being in the opposition. These are accomplished politicians who run the country, and suddenly they lost power and they lost their heads.
“People blame Tinubu. I blame him as well, because there are areas clearly where he’s wrong. He’s amassing too much power, or what appears to be too much power. He is actually collecting too many politicians around him. That’s not necessarily power.
“But what has the PDP done to itself? PDP has been involved in destroying itself consistently. And what is amazing is that they started very well as a party, accomplished politicians, people who had served their country very well. And certainly it has degenerated and this is where we are.
“They allowed their party to split. They couldn’t find a way to either take the part that is left. It’s not the first time PDP has taken a huge chunk of itself and given it to the opposition. This happened in 2015 and it’s happening again.”
