PDP Is Afflicted With Impunity, Presumptive Reasoning, Restrictive Consultative Process – Okupe

Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has listed impunity, presumptive reasoning, restrictive consultative process as the ‘diseases’ killing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Reacting to the emergence of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as national chairman of the party, Dr. Okupe said that with the crisis rocking the PDP, the emergence of Sheriff might deplete the membership base of the opposition party.
Writing on his Facebook page, the former Presidential spokesman said that with the emergence of Modu Sheriff as the national chairman of the PDP, the opposition party risked total disintegration.
He described Modu Sheriff as his long-standing political associate, but that the former governor lacked the capability to hold the party together.
Dr. Okupe said that it is unfortunate that the PDP is in the habit of making grave errors in its choice of leadership.
He said with the emergence of Sheriff as the national chairman of the PDP, the opposition party risked total disintegration, adding however that he would not leave the party as he would want to see how it would all end.
“Some of us have vowed not to leave the party (PDP). We still will not leave the party. We will continue to engage all who care to listen and seek help from everyone ready to revive this severely challenged sickened giant.
“For a morose political party, thanks to the overwhelming and effective propaganda machinery of the party in power, this may yet be the mortal wound that may cause the eventual depletion of its long perplexed following.
“But if it is the divine will of God that our present masters must kill the PDP, then by the grace of God, we shall yet tarry at the graveside to bid it farewell.
“The capability of our party, the PDP, and its leadership to make grave errors in judgment is legendary. What is intriguing is that even when the party is out of power, that tendency seems not to reduce.
“Alhaji Sheriff is a long-standing political associate of mine and a very astute politician of, perhaps, a sublime class. But for the post of the national chairman of the PDP, he is a wrong candidate and (he is) also coming in at a wrong time.”
Dr. Okupe noted that the PDP leaders who supported the emergence of Sheriff hinged their argument on the fact that, being a wealthy politician, he (Sheriff) would be favourably disposed to fund the activities of the party but that other leaders within the party felt that Sheriff would compound the problems of the party and   bring ‘a crushing weight of burden capable of fatally destroying the few strands of moral fibres in the party. [myad]