<b><br>By One Who Knows That No House Falls From the Outside Without Cracks Within</b><br><br>A gale is sweeping through Nigerias oppositionnot the gale of power, but of desertion. And no party is bleeding faster than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Every day, a governor jumps ship. Every week, a senator waves goodbye. And every month, a former stakeholder becomes a latter-day critic.<br><br><b>Yet the PDPs first instinct is to blame the weather.</b><br><br>They are being bought, they say. They are being threatened. But when your roof keeps leaking, the question is not about the rain. Its about your roofing sheet.<br><br><b>Let us speak plainly: what is wrong with PDP is PDP.<br></b><br><br>It is not Bola Tinubu. It is not the APC. It is not gale, wind, thunder, or political harmattan. It is the simple fact that a party once described as the largest in Africa[b] now behaves like a ship without a compassand worse, without a captain.<br>[/b]<br>Leadership is the first casualty. The PDP has not had a moral centre since Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat. The party has drifted from one court case to another, with chairmen fighting like village kinsmen over a chieftaincy titleeach faction more concerned with ownership than direction.<br><br>When history offered the PDP a golden momenta chance to learn from its loss in 2015 and rebuildit chose instead to pretend nothing happened. Like a man who wakes up in a burnt house and still searches for the TV remote.<br><br>By 2022, as the APC wrestled with fuel queues and Naira redesigns, the PDP had a golden opportunity to present a credible, united front. Instead, it stumbled into an ethnic war zone of its own making, mishandled zoning, insulted its Southern base, and handed the Labour Party an emotional advantage it never paid for.<br><br>And at the centre of this chaos is one man: Alhaji Atiku Abubakarthe perennial contestant, the familiar face on the wrong side of history. Atikus insistence on being the last man standing has become a bulldozer that crushes internal consensus. Rather than groom successors, he declares himself the only saviour leftlike a prophet who refuses to leave the pulpit even as the congregation dwindles.<br><br><b>This is not ambition. It is addiction.</b><br><br>And now, the party groans. Governors leave, not because APC is perfect, but because PDP has lost its flavour. People do not eat saltless stew twiceno matter how nostalgic they are about the recipe.<br><br>What PDP needs now is not a press statement. It needs a mirror. It needs to look at its old mistakes: alienating the South, ignoring youth, mishandling internal democracy, running campaigns like inheritance.<br><br>Opposition is not a title. It is a discipline. It requires strategy, humility, and reformation. None of which PDP has shown since 2015.<br><br>So let the gale of defection blow. Let the rats flee. But when the house collapses completely, let no one blame the storm.<br><br><b>The termites were already inside.</b>
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