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Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Affairs, Hakeem Comments, ‘PDP is gone, can’t be fixed’ –
Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Affairs, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can’t be fixed.
Baba-Ahmed made this statement on Thursday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST.
He was speaking on Nigeria’s political terrain ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general elections.
“The PDP is drifting away. I think it is gone, and I do not believe anyone can fix it. The PDP is not the only party capable of providing a credible opposition to the APC; there is the ADC and others.
“I think that sometimes we blame the government too much and we don’t pay attention to the damage that the PDP, the opposition, has done to itself. The truth about it is that PDP has been on the free fall for a long time.
“These are politicians who held power for a very long time and it turns out that these people never had any experience in being in the opposition. These are accomplished politicians who run the country, and suddenly they lost power and they lost their heads.
“People blame Tinubu. I blame him as well, because there are areas clearly where he’s wrong. He’s amassing too much power, or what appears to be too much power. He is actually collecting too many politicians around him. That’s not necessarily power.
“But what has the PDP done to itself? PDP has been involved in destroying itself consistently. And what is amazing is that they started very well as a party, accomplished politicians, people who had served their country very well. And certainly it has degenerated and this is where we are.
“They allowed their party to split. They couldn’t find a way to either take the part that is left. It’s not the first time PDP has taken a huge chunk of itself and given it to the opposition. This happened in 2015 and it’s happening again,” he said.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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