Musings on Parties in Turmoil
Nigeria, April 25 -- Nigeria's three main political parties - the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP) - are in turmoil. They have been infested by little foxes that threaten to damage and, potentially, destroy them.
I know that discipline is not a virtue of political parties in a presidential system. In Nigeria's own version, however, indiscipline governs everything.
Whether the political parties are winning or losing - of course, it is worse when they're losing - politicians never forget that the party is simply a convenient tool, serviceable only when it can help them get to power, but certainly dispensable immediately afterwards.
See what is happening in the PDP, the party w...
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