Politics
The burden of rescuing Nigeria from APC: The PDP and coward politicians
Written By: Daniel A. Noah Osa-Ogbegie, Esq.
12 Oct 2025 07:02 AM
There comes a time in the life of a nation when silence becomes treason and neutrality becomes a burden no patriot can afford to carry. Nigeria has arrived at that moment. The All Progressives Congress has not merely misgoverned the country, it has vandalised its very soul. The task before Nigerians is no longer about partisan preference, it is about rescue, recovery and redemption. Only one political platform has the pedigree, memory, structure and national character to lead that rescue mission, and that party is the Peoples Democratic Party.
For sixteen unbroken years, Nigeria under the PDP was not perfect, but it was functional, stable and hopeful. The Naira traded between one hundred and fifteen and one hundred and eighty to the dollar. Fuel sold at sixty five Naira and later ninety seven Naira, not the present madness of over Nine hundred Naira. A bag of rice cost between six and eight thousand Naira, not eighty to one hundred and twenty thousand it hovers around during these APC years of the locusts. A loaf of bread was one hundred Naira, not one thousand eight hundred to two thousand Naira. Transport fares were humane. Families could plan their lives. The economy was rated among the fastest growing in the world and foreign investors took Nigeria seriously because the PDP projected coherence, competence and continuity. Whatever its imperfections, the PDP handed over in 2015 a nation that still believed in tomorrow.
Then came Muhammadu Buhari, a man whose emptiness was matched only by his ethno religious bigotry. He understood nothing beyond fulani hegemony and Islam , sadly. He took a country that was marching into modernity and dragged it backwards by a century. His time in office was defined by nepotism, division and economic arson. He inherited a dollar at one hundred and ninety seven naira and left it flirting with eight hundred. There were around ten exchange rates during his inglorious reign.He met fuel at ninety seven Naira and left Nigerians buying at two hundred and fifty with no clarity. He met food inflation at nine percent and left it above forty. Under his watch more Nigerians were killed, kidnapped or displaced than at any other time since the civil war. Buhari did not misrule. He unbuilt.
If Nigerians thought Buhari was the worst it could get, Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived to prove that even a man reputed for political cunning can become a national hazard when driven solely by ambition and greed. In less than two years, he has taken Nigerians from economic intensive care to democratic mortuary. The Naira now roams between one thousand five hundred and one thousand eight hundred to the dollar. Fuel price has become a daily torment. Manufacturers are shutting down. Hunger has become a national language. Under Buhari and Tinubu, Nigeria has become a crime scene. Poverty has been democratised, insecurity has been nationalised and hopelessness has become the only functioning policy.
To rescue this country from the menace of the APC, Nigerians must return to the only party that has demonstrated the capacity to govern. The PDP is not merely a political organisation. It remains the only surviving institution that reflects the diversity, aspirations and values of Nigerians. Between 1999 and 2015, the PDP stabilised democracy, expanded the middle class, attracted global investment, introduced the telecoms revolution, strengthened the banking sector, built universities and maintained relative peace. The APC has reversed all that progress with a speed only the devil would admire. The PDP built. The APC has been finishing Nigerians without restraint.
It is tragic, and in some cases ludicrous, that some PDP members now scamper into the APC or ADC with cowardly excuses dressed up as strategy. It should be known clearly that those who abandon the PDP at this time should not be trusted. They are opportunists in search of personal leverage. The Governor of Delta State offers a classic example. His junketing into the APC circle at this hour of national despair is neither ideological nor altruistic. It is selfishness and personal survival strategy. He is not alone. Ifeanyi Okowa, who climbed the ladder of PDP goodwill to national prominence, now flirts with the APC for same selfish reasons. Mention must also be made of those in Akwa Ibom who imagine that political defection at a time of national agony is clever politics. It is not. It is superflous cowardice.
Perhaps the most comical of all are those who scurry off to the ADC. Some of them say they are leaving because of Nyesom Wike. That is the most unintelligent political excuse in recent memory. To abandon a national party because of one individual is not strategy. It is unseriousness wrapped in pettiness. Leaving the PDP for the APC or ADC at this moment is an act of cowardice. It is an abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of citizens who are drowning under disastrous governance.
Unless Nigerians rise up, politicians will continue to ride on their backs and flog them while at it. Power does not concede to the docile. A people unwilling to defend their future will continue to be ruled by comedians and amateurs as is the case in Edo state. This is not the time to scatter into mushroom parties. It is not the time to surrender to political merchants wearing new colours. It is the time to rebuild the PDP as the only credible platform capable of dislodging the floundering APC from Edo Government House and Aso Rock.
The PDP is not perfect. No party is. Yet it remains the only political organisation that Nigerians can still call their own. It is the only party with memory, structure and national conscience. The APC has vandalised the land. The PDP must rise to restore what is left. The burden of rescue falls on those who refuse to flee. History does not remember runners. It remembers rebuilders. Let us join hands, strengthen the PDP and chase these APC bald heads out of power in Edo, Abuja and beyond. Nigeria must not die because her bravest men chose convenience over courage.
For sixteen unbroken years, Nigeria under the PDP was not perfect, but it was functional, stable and hopeful. The Naira traded between one hundred and fifteen and one hundred and eighty to the dollar. Fuel sold at sixty five Naira and later ninety seven Naira, not the present madness of over Nine hundred Naira. A bag of rice cost between six and eight thousand Naira, not eighty to one hundred and twenty thousand it hovers around during these APC years of the locusts. A loaf of bread was one hundred Naira, not one thousand eight hundred to two thousand Naira. Transport fares were humane. Families could plan their lives. The economy was rated among the fastest growing in the world and foreign investors took Nigeria seriously because the PDP projected coherence, competence and continuity. Whatever its imperfections, the PDP handed over in 2015 a nation that still believed in tomorrow.
Then came Muhammadu Buhari, a man whose emptiness was matched only by his ethno religious bigotry. He understood nothing beyond fulani hegemony and Islam , sadly. He took a country that was marching into modernity and dragged it backwards by a century. His time in office was defined by nepotism, division and economic arson. He inherited a dollar at one hundred and ninety seven naira and left it flirting with eight hundred. There were around ten exchange rates during his inglorious reign.He met fuel at ninety seven Naira and left Nigerians buying at two hundred and fifty with no clarity. He met food inflation at nine percent and left it above forty. Under his watch more Nigerians were killed, kidnapped or displaced than at any other time since the civil war. Buhari did not misrule. He unbuilt.
If Nigerians thought Buhari was the worst it could get, Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived to prove that even a man reputed for political cunning can become a national hazard when driven solely by ambition and greed. In less than two years, he has taken Nigerians from economic intensive care to democratic mortuary. The Naira now roams between one thousand five hundred and one thousand eight hundred to the dollar. Fuel price has become a daily torment. Manufacturers are shutting down. Hunger has become a national language. Under Buhari and Tinubu, Nigeria has become a crime scene. Poverty has been democratised, insecurity has been nationalised and hopelessness has become the only functioning policy.
To rescue this country from the menace of the APC, Nigerians must return to the only party that has demonstrated the capacity to govern. The PDP is not merely a political organisation. It remains the only surviving institution that reflects the diversity, aspirations and values of Nigerians. Between 1999 and 2015, the PDP stabilised democracy, expanded the middle class, attracted global investment, introduced the telecoms revolution, strengthened the banking sector, built universities and maintained relative peace. The APC has reversed all that progress with a speed only the devil would admire. The PDP built. The APC has been finishing Nigerians without restraint.
It is tragic, and in some cases ludicrous, that some PDP members now scamper into the APC or ADC with cowardly excuses dressed up as strategy. It should be known clearly that those who abandon the PDP at this time should not be trusted. They are opportunists in search of personal leverage. The Governor of Delta State offers a classic example. His junketing into the APC circle at this hour of national despair is neither ideological nor altruistic. It is selfishness and personal survival strategy. He is not alone. Ifeanyi Okowa, who climbed the ladder of PDP goodwill to national prominence, now flirts with the APC for same selfish reasons. Mention must also be made of those in Akwa Ibom who imagine that political defection at a time of national agony is clever politics. It is not. It is superflous cowardice.
Perhaps the most comical of all are those who scurry off to the ADC. Some of them say they are leaving because of Nyesom Wike. That is the most unintelligent political excuse in recent memory. To abandon a national party because of one individual is not strategy. It is unseriousness wrapped in pettiness. Leaving the PDP for the APC or ADC at this moment is an act of cowardice. It is an abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of citizens who are drowning under disastrous governance.
Unless Nigerians rise up, politicians will continue to ride on their backs and flog them while at it. Power does not concede to the docile. A people unwilling to defend their future will continue to be ruled by comedians and amateurs as is the case in Edo state. This is not the time to scatter into mushroom parties. It is not the time to surrender to political merchants wearing new colours. It is the time to rebuild the PDP as the only credible platform capable of dislodging the floundering APC from Edo Government House and Aso Rock.
The PDP is not perfect. No party is. Yet it remains the only political organisation that Nigerians can still call their own. It is the only party with memory, structure and national conscience. The APC has vandalised the land. The PDP must rise to restore what is left. The burden of rescue falls on those who refuse to flee. History does not remember runners. It remembers rebuilders. Let us join hands, strengthen the PDP and chase these APC bald heads out of power in Edo, Abuja and beyond. Nigeria must not die because her bravest men chose convenience over courage.
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