Okupe made the comments on Monday, May 23, 2016, while appearing on Channels TV.
‘PDP is the only party in Nigeria,’ Ex-Jonathan aide says
Former Special Adviser to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is still suffering for past mistakes.
Doyin Okupe
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“The crisis you are seeing today came into play because there was lack of cohesiveness on the part of the leadership and followership and that is why the centre cannot hold and the party is paying seriously for that,” he said according to Vanguard.
“What you are seeing now are flurry signs and symptoms of failure of leadership. Before we left government or shortly after we left government, people ought to have come together knowing that we were likely going to suffer what is called electoral defeat syndrome, which has become exaggerated in our present circumstances is responsible for this.
“We love our party and we do not want PDP to scatter, even though we lost an election to All Progressives Congress, APC, it was evident that APC will not get its act together and if they do not get their acts together, a third force will emerge and that is the dream of many Nigerians.
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“The APC, is not an association as such, it’s a conglomeration of various interests. They still do not have a party. They are not strong on ground, there are many places where they do not exist. PDP is the only party in Nigeria that has a culture, a strong background and a record of performance, yes we have some issues.
“There are evidence against our people involved in embarrassing forms of corruption, but that’s what happens in any human organisation. The truth of the matter is that what PDP is suffering today is from the collective actions that we have taken in the past.
“From our failure to obey our own rules. For entrenching impunity as a standard practice in our party; for allowing people to use money to buy offices, to buy candidacy. These are consequences of those actions,” he added.
Okupe had earlier threatened to leave the PDP if the party’s chairmanship was not zoned to the South-West.
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