Bolaji Abdullahi, National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was never designed to function as an opposition party.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Breakfast Show on Wednesday, July 23, Abdullahi said the PDP lost its footing after the 2015 elections because it was unfamiliar with playing the role of an opposition.
“PDP was not built to play opposition party—PDP was built to govern. So it found itself in a strange place in 2015 as an opposition party, and then everything began to spill downward from there,” he said.
He also suggested that the ruling government may have exploited the PDP’s internal weaknesses, either deliberately or opportunistically, to weaken the party’s chances of returning to power.
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“Then came this administration, and PDP remains like the potential challenger for power again.
“So I don’t know if it was a deliberate policy of this government or it’s something that some people just decided to undertake by themselves, to undermine or take advantage of the internal contradictions in the opposition party and to make sure they are no more,” Abdullahi added.
He further argued that the emergence of the ADC helped prevent Nigeria from drifting into a one-party state.
“In the situation we are in today, I am not saying this because I’m in ADC, Nigerians have to thank ADC for coming on the scene. Why? We are inexorably heading to a one-party state,” he said.