PDP DIED DAY OBJ TORE MEMBERSHIP CARD - PERRY OPARA,

National chairman of a self-acclaimed mega party, National Unity Party (NUP), Chief Perry Opara, yesterday disagreed with former President Jonathan that the PDP was the biggest and strongest party in Nigeria.

Arguing that the former ruling party was dead for good, Opara, a former member of the PDP who blamed Jonathan for the loss suffered by the PDP in 2015, said that the former ruling party died the day one of its former leaders, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, personally supervised the tearing of his membership card of the party.

Describing Jonathan as a good man who was not a courageous leader, he noted that the attempt by the former president to revive the party was coming too late in the day, warning that it could further divide the party.

Opara said;

I totally disagree with former President Jonathan. In the first place, he caused PDP’s defeat in 2015. He should not have contested in 2015. He should have allowed Dr. Tafawa Balewa and others to compete with him in the 2015 PDP presidential primary. Jonathan is a good man but not a courageous leader. Courageous leaders strengthen institutions to make them strong. Weak leaders don’t make institutions strong. 

PDP is gone and gone forever. PDP died the day Obasanjo tore his membership card. Jonathan woke up from his political slumber very late in the day. When he lost election in April 2015, leaders of PDP went to him severally to reorganise the party but he could not do that until he left office. Even after leaving office he could not do anything for PDP; he ran away. 

Two years after, he has realised his mistakes to reorganise PDP when things have gone bad. No way! It is late. His entry into PDP now will create the 3rd faction in the party. He should step back and enjoy his retirement. The soul of PDP has left and will never come back. 

Opara further said, while the former president was out of office, he could not raise a finger for any of his aides or associates, adding that his campaign directors in 2011 were pushed out before the 2015 elections.

He continued:

Not even one of them participated in his 2015 reelection. You don’t change a winning team. His structures in the party were dismantled before the 2015 reelection bid. Yet, he couldn’t do anything. 

He was not in charge. Instead of campaigning on issues, they campaigned with money and left the substance. He resorted to campaign of calumny against Buhari. How do you convince Nigerians that such a corrupt group should come back in 2019. Never; forget it.