Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- At its peak, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) described itself as the largest party in Africa and boasted that it would rule Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, for 60 years. However, the year 2025 appears to be the year the party unravelled into what it may never recover from.

The PDP, Nigeria's former ruling party, faced an internal crisis in 2025 that nearly pushed it to the brink of collapse, or 'convulsion point,' as described by party spokesperson Ini Ememobong, in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES.

Although it has remained the country's main opposition since losing power in 2015, the scale of internal divisions and external pressures it faced last year showed its struggle for survival.

Despite building natio...