Hence, on a good day in an election year, all the PDP would care for is to consolidate on its gains, to post another earth-shaking record in 2011. But all seems not too well with the ruling party.
The troubles of PDP are legion. And they are coming one after another, as if the firmaments have conspired to deal a ruthless blow on the self-acclaimed largest party in Africa. Will the Opposition parties seize the tides to take advantage of the PDP or will they just make all the noise and remain where the PDP had abandoned them?
Zoning is a major problem now for the ruling party and in a few days time, the Consensus Team from the North would name an aspirant, who would confront President Goodluck Jonathan at the party presidential primaries. The PDP had been in similar tight corners in the past and when it seemed the party was on the verge of collapse, it had bounced back somehow.
It happened in 2001, when there was need to replace the Solomon Lar-led interim leadership, which had groomed the party and seen it successfully through the first set of elections.
There was a sharp division between the camps of the late Sunday Awoniyi and Barnabas Gemade. Awoniyi was at home with the old conservatives, while Gemade was being propped up by then President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was keen on gaining effective control of the party.
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