The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed suggestions that it is in crisis, saying the party remains united and focused on its national convention scheduled for November in Ibadan.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba, made this known in an interview on Arise News on Wednesday.
He said: “The Peoples Democratic Party is about the Peoples Democratic Party, and no one individual is above that party, and no one individual owns that party.
“The PDP was never in ICU. Do we have challenges? Yes, we do. Just like every human organisation or every human being, we do.
“But what came out from all the recent recalibration of the party is the fact that this party has capacity at the appropriate time to come back up and start its own internal affairs, and that tells you the capacity of any organisation that is worth its name, that in challenging periods, you can step back and reorganise yourself, and that’s what the PDP is doing.”
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He explained that the party had conducted a post-mortem of the 2023 elections, adding: “What we’re trying to do is to prevent those things that have happened in the past.
“No one individual is vindicated. The institution that has been justified is the PDP – its capacity to look inward and say to itself, yes, there’s something we probably would have done differently, and now we’re doing that differently.”
On speculation over internal disagreements, Ologunagba said:
“The beauty of democracy is the fact that people disagree. But the capacity of any political party to bring people within this fold to speak to each other is what is important. That is the bedrock of the PDP.”
He maintained that the PDP remained the only true alternative for Nigerians, concluding: “We are set for Ibadan, and all the arrangements – the venue, the logistics, the security arrangements – are ongoing as I speak.”