Indeed, it’s not the best of times for PDP. The other day, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar were training verbal Kalashnikov at each other.
Now, it’s Dino Melaye, the PDP enfant terrible that did more than most to de-market the party with his eternal childish stunts versus an intra-PDP lobby that calls itself “PDP Frontliners”, charging at each other.
Melaye had declared, on his X account: “End of the road for PDP as Damagun, Bature and Anyanwu irredeemably destroyed the party.”
The irony of this declaration was totally lost on Melaye. If anything, Melaye, with childish pranks, started that “road” to destruction. How could such a man-child crow unchecked, day in and day out, and you expect folks not to take the collective as a band of happy-go-lucky juveniles, not worthy of serious attention?
That was the road that Dino, with his empty dins, built. So, if Damagun, Bature and Anyanwu allegedly completed that construction, who is Dino to extricate himself from the earthwork?
Besides, Melaye’s own woeful Kogi governorship result was fair mirror of Dino’s perception in the public mind. As Dino’s own Okun-Yoruba people often quip: the rascal is fun to watch. But whoever claims such as own child? So long for Melaye’s gubernatorial drubbing!
Which reinforces the PDP Frontliners’ first line of attack.
“It has never been so bad since 1999 but Dino Melaye’s failure earned PDP a meager 46, 000 votes across the entire state,” the Frontliners’ gun boomed, in a release signed by the trio of Hussein Mohammed (president), Moses Abidemi (secretary) and Dan Okafor (publicity secretary).
But the Frontliners’ clincher — sweet as honey for them, bitter as gall for Dino: “… and the governorship candidate himself did not even bother to vote!” — or did he? Devastating! Dino and sympathizers can argue with grim facts!
Of course, the Dino hyperbole of alleged total PDP destruction has to do with intra-party lobbies struggling to capture the PDP soul.
That’s pretty normal in political parties with sundry interests. But with PDP that thinks nothing outside capturing power, it becomes very fierce.
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The Dino hyperbole is panic mode that his faction is losing out in the sweepstakes. So, he’d rather play Samson that interprets such a lose as total collapse of the house on everyone. The Frontliners are probably the triumphant whoop of the ascending lobby.
Either way, it shows the PDP continues to be a house divided against itself. Perhaps it should think less power, and more purpose, quiet introspection and reorganization?
But who does that with the likes of Dino making an eternal row?
