
2023: Fifth columnists and party cohesion
AS Nigeria’s democracy rolls into its third uninterrupted decade, the question on every lip seems to be whether the once-ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can ever rediscover itself to pose any threat to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Of course, the answer to that question lies inside the very fabric of PDP; in its disposition to self-destruct and in the hordes of moles and fifth columnists parading as party leaders, and spawning unnecessary controversies and diversion.