
The undertakers and political vultures are circling, and whether the party can survive, whether it can escape extinction, depends on how it handles Nyesom Wike and his gang of renegades. Thus, it’s more appropriate to say that PDP is dying, that it’s on a deathbed. In truth, PDP is not yet dead, not yet extinct it is still alive, albeit on life support.

That’s the story of the People’s Democratic Party! In the struggle for existence, it’s survival of the fittest only the strong organisms are guaranteed continued existence, the weak will succumb to extinction. Charles Darwin famously said that any organism that cannot adapt to its environment will become extinct. Buffeted from crisis to crisis, a deep rot set in, then an existential decline.

It governed Nigeria for 16 years and vowed to rule for 60 years. Once upon a time, a political party bestrode Nigerian politics like a colossus.
