So why were we not surprised that the PDP imploded at its own convention last week? Why was the news not greeted with dismay by the generality of the people? Is it because we are yet to fully grasp the meaning of a ruling party that has imploded and the effect it could have on governance? No.

WHEN the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, election politics was raging and some commentators said Their Excellencies were wasting time on an irrelevant issue that had no bearing on the average Nigerian, I laughed.

If we attempt a post-humous reading of his fertile imagination, the earth-shaking event of last weekend, with the walk out of seven governors, and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, from the PDP convention in Abuja, would certainly have elicited an absolutely quotable line for posterity!

MAKURDI— The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the crisis rocking the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, “as God’s divine intervention to liberate the ordinary Nigerian from years of deprivation, repression and maladministration by a class that has held Nigerians captive.”

Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, in this brief encounter with Vanguard, speaks on the mini-convention of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the crisis rocking Rivers State. Excerpts:

*Asks Suntai to seek further medical attention
*Suntai warns Tukur to stay out of Taraba politics
JALINGO—Convinced that the ailing governor of the state, Danbaba Suntai, cannot give his best given his current medical state, members of the Taraba House of Assembly Monday mandated the Deputy Governor, Garba Umar, who has been acting in the past ten months, to continue.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Affair, Ahmed Gulak, said on Monday in Abuja that the PDP had uncovered the moles in its fold sent to destabilise the party.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday called on aggrieved members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to embrace peace in order to move the party forward.

*Obasanjo urges Baraje faction to return
*They are jokers — Babatope…
ABUJA—The Bamanga Tukur-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was thrown into panic, Sunday, a day after seven governors on the platform of the ruling party broke out to form a parallel executive of the party. The panic was being fuelled by reports of the rebellion swelling to include party officials disenchanted with the outcome of last Saturday’s convention.

The ‘evil’ omen had for long clouded the party, but no one really expected the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to split on its 15th anniversary.