By Fred Onyeoziri
A Political party is an association of interest organizations
competing for the power to govern in a national society. And the major strategy
for that competition is elections. It is winning the election that gives the
party the power to govern.
In the context of a free and fair election,
commitment to the interest of the party is the condition for winning success
for a party.
PDP’s failure to enforce respect for the
party’s interest was the major reason it lost power in 2015. It allowed all
manner of private interests – impurity, imposition, factionalism,
god-fatherism, and money politics – to distract it from enforcing respect for
the true interest of the party.
