Osita Okechukwu, Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), claims that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has boxed itself into an unrecoverable tight corner as Nigerians ponder on the political situation less than 24 days before the start of campaigns for the general elections of 2023.
When answering questions from reporters on Sunday in Abuja, Okechukwu, who is also an APC foundation member, said this.
The PDP leaders, he claimed, were too busy shifting the blame and criticising the ruling APC to actually sit down and discuss the myriad issues facing their party.
Mr. Simon Imobo'Tswam, Special Adviser on Media and Communications to PDP Chairman, Dr. Iyorchiya Ayu, referenced posts that were allegedly attributed to APC, alleging that he had claimed that he could not take on a man who could not father a kid and other unprintable innuendos.
Okechukwu slammed Ayu for claiming that the APC was funding malicious posts against him.
He rejected the suggestion that the APC was exacerbating the PDP issue and encouraged Ayu to abstain from finger-pointing and assigning blame, emphasising that doing so amounts to the transfer of unwarranted violence.
“Dr Ayu, being a social scientist is experienced enough to know that once covenant of national integration is breached, it unleashes antithesis of unimaginable proportion naturally on the culprits.
“The PDP national chairman should leave APC out of the confusion he plunged his party into when he deliberately betrayed the South and Governor Nyesom Wike by extension. Blame game and transfer of aggression are not the answer to Ayu’s Odd Consensus,” he said.
According to Okechukwu, who elaborated on his postulation of Ayu's Odd Consensus, "Ayu's Odd Consensus was the willing unpatriotic breach of the existing rotation of power from North to South convention by Ayu and his presidential candidate, Atiku Abubukar.
“Secondly, the duo has reached the odd consensus that Atiku is not likely to win the 2023 presidential election. This is why they rejected the minor palliative of placating Gov. Nyesom Wike and others that were hurt by the breach. Otherwise, if they are sure of victory, Ayu could have willingly stepped down long ago, and wait for more juicy slots post 2023 presidential election victory like SGF. Hence close the huge failure fracture starring them in the face consequent upon the betrayal of the South.”
Okechukwu claimed that Ayu's pragmatic barrier was his Odd Consensus that there was no need to steal N14 billion in order to trade away the prestigious PDP leadership when he was uncertain of victory.
“Thirdly, Ayu and his co-travelers odd consensus heavy reliance to raise votes via fault lines is being blocked by patriots like PDP’s Children, APC’s Northern Governors Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and host of others who reason that it is not fair and just for North to hand over to North.”
According to analysis by pundits, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and Sen. Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) were the PDP's children and were thinning out Atiku's expected support base, especially the well-educated far Northern electorate whom he never represented and the Southern electorate, who yearn for a change in power and have been the PDP's traditional stronghold since 1999.