BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI—Fears have been expressed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may disintegrate before 2015, if the multiplicity of internal problems bedeviling the party was not quickly addressed.

An Owerri-based legal practitioner and former chieftain of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN, who made his feelings known, also said the ominous signals were palpable.

Ahamba said: “I am inclined to believe that the problem of PDP largely hinges on the deviation of the principles of democracy by the party’s leadership”.

“PDP lacks credibility in all ramifications and this explains why party loyalists and the masses are disgusted with the party’s leadership pattern and operation.”

Ahamba expressed regret that for over 14 years, the PDP had woefully failed to offer anything reasonable to Nigerians and Ndigbo in particular.

He said: “PDP has not only subjected Nigerians to untold hardship but has smuggled the country into a dilapidating quagmire and they lack the political, social and mental will to rescue it.”

While taking the PDP to task on the second Niger Bridge, which he said had been the party’s sing-song since 2003, Ahamba, however, said the All Progressives Congress, APC, would effect the desired change.

“PDP usually raise the issue of second Niger Bridge each time elections draw nearer, with a view to attracting Igbo votes but as soon as the elections are over, nobody gets to hear about it again”.

On the possibility of an Igbo man rising to the Presidency, he said Ndigbo must shun greed and the run-him-down syndrome.

Ahamba pleaded that “Ndigbo must help themselves by shunning greed and run-him-down syndrome, if they want to rule this country.

“Igbos are unique people and have the capability of redeeming Nigeria but they must shun those nasty factors that have retarded the political growth of the Igboman”.