The dysfunctional state of the country’s political party system is worrisome and unacceptable.
Equally of great concern is the propensity for opposition parties to slip into coma and disarray once they lose an election and fail to form government, becoming weak, rudderless and unable to project alternate policy options to those offered by the government of the day. Multi-party democracy thrives when there are contending ideas and alternate viewpoints, which political parties articulate and propagate as part of their ideology and beliefs.
Discerning Nigerians are particularly dissatisfied with the perennial commotion in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the oldest and most dominant political party in this fourth Republic, that has governed the country for 16 years. The other two parties registered alongside PDP in 1988, the All Peoples Party (APP) and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) are now defunct.
Once…
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