By Sam Nwaoko
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As Nigerians live each day with particular concern for the country’s democratic life, it is virtually impossible not to cast occasional glances at the degraded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It is pointless to argue that the PDP is down, it might just be that this once mighty party may never rise from this nadir. Many concerned Nigerians now see PDP as an endless circus, a political party of particular concern. Its members who helped to turn the once behemoth political outfit into a house of commotion have brought this upon us all, although some people might argue dubiously that it is not their concern. These have left the citizens with no choice than to either laugh or whine at the thought of what PDP is doing to itself and party democracy in the country.
Not a few Nigerians view this development with their varying levels of concern. At the same time there are numerous other Nigerians who view and receive the state of things in the party with pure delight. They see the chaos as benevolent gods tilling their political fields. All they only need to do is just get more and more feathers in their political caps.
A cluster of members of the party want it to remain a playground of rats, or more aptly “a nest of mischief”, and these people are doing a really good job. As their malodourous colony is thriving to their utter satisfaction, they do not feel concerned that Nigeria might be drifting further away from the need for political choices. This fear has heightened so much that Nigerians are clamouring against a one-party state, a euphemism for dictatorship.
On the other hand, another cluster of PDP members has claimed the outset of a revolution. They said that in their own camp, they have elected to see what can be salvaged from the ruins of the party. While this group is not oblivious of the fact that they are in for an arduous task indeed, they have elected to counter each mad step with an equally mad step. They went as far as holding a national convention in Ibadan, the political capital of the South West, in a bid to put action to their words. After that, they took their fight personally to the headquarters of their party in Abuja and so on, and so forth…
A video of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu watching the ‘War at Wadata’ on TV even made the rounds on the internet. He saw how the PDP stalwarts were exchanging teargas fire at the headquarters of the party. It was just like when public transport union chiefs are fighting for supremacy. Tinubu saw it and just moved on. He must have shrugged in his mind because he is one of those without concern for the party. In fact, President Tinubu is as unconcerned as a fan of Enyimba Football Club of Aba who has nothing to lose by watching the Shooting Stars of Ibadan destroy Hassaacas FC of Ghana on the football pitch. It is to them like the case of rainfall and the women that went to the market – an indifferent child who would urge the rain to keep droning if it wished, because his mother is not part of the market crowd. Liken that also to the ruining of the fortunes of an unknown entity. T’eni baje o kan mi.
The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and its members are enjoying the spectacle. Why should they care? PDP’s chaos is like a cow with the proverbial hunchback, which translates to added meat for the butcher. APC and its members are loving it and have chosen to make mockery of the PDP situation, forgetting the basket and water pot metaphor in the rainy dry and rainy seasons. Beyond having their respective seasons of triumph and failure, APC members have abandoned the thought that the absence of opposition is also not healthy for them too. They do not realise that when there is totalitarianism, only the ruling class matters. And I wish this is properly understood.
However, the newest game on the PDP turf is the ping-pong on which courts might hear PDP’s cases. One PDP said in a letter that there are “courts of particular concern” in the Nigerian Judiciary and that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court should spare the party those courts. That PDP listed the courts and pointedly said they are an anathema to the party. They mean it because they said it in black and white to show how serious they are about this. They wrote a letter on 19th November, 2025, to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Terhemba Tsoho.
One week later, on November 26th, the other PDP also wrote a letter to the same Justice John Tsoho on the same subject. This was written as a reaction to the first and also clear the haze that is beclouding PDP. This other PDP wrote not just to react to the alarm over “courts of particular concern”, but to also say that the PDP which raised the alarm was not PDP. This PDP said Justice Tsoho should not listen to that PDP. It said Justice Tsoho should please assign their cases to those judges and should not let anyone dictate to him. Besides, this PDP said that PDP is showing disrespect and disdain to Justice Tsoho and the entire judiciary by being so audacious to write such a letter in the first place.
Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja signed one PDP letter. Senator Samuel Anyanwu signed the other. They both signed as ‘National Secretary’ of PDP. Both PDPs are alarmed. One is alarmed that over the past few years, all cases concerning or involving them end up in the courts of three judges only. This PDP is further alarmed that this appears to have been a pattern. “It is of great concern to our party that it would appear that all matters for the past few years filed in the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division either for or against our party have always been assigned to the following three Judges only, namely: Justice James Omotosho, Justice Peter Odo Lifu and Justice Abdulmalik.” This PDP added in the letter that this was so regardless of the fact that “there are other judges numbering about nine in the Abuja Judicial Division who could have taken up any of these matters, as the Abuja Division has 12 judges.”
This PDP of Taofeek Arapaja hinted at why the letter was written. “Several of our party members have complained bitterly to the newly-elected National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee of the above-mentioned scenario. Indeed, all these three courts are viewed by party members and indeed the public as ‘courts of particular concern’ with regards to matters pertaining to or affecting the interest of the Peoples Democratic Party.”
Samuel Anyanwu’s PDP said Arapaja’s PDP had written because the rulings of the courts run “contrary to their expectations” and that it was “regrettable and disdainful for the person of Arapaja to disparage the collective integrity of the judiciary ably represented by your Lordships Justice James Omotosho, Justice Peter Odo Lifu and Justice Abdulmalik.” Anyanwu did not just ask Justice Tsoho to disregard correspondences from Arapaja because he is a “false claimant”, he said “Arapaja in his antics cannot coerce the judiciary to depart from the position of justice to legitimize illegality and disrespect for the rule of law.”
So, before the wise Chief Judge is one matter with different dire hues. One is a demand capable of ruining the careers of the judges whose integrity was so publicly questioned. When a child is crying and is pointing a finger in a direction, if the mother is not there, the father is there. The other is a call on the Chief Judge to ignore the letter and its demands on the grounds that the writer is not even qualified to write it. This is a tsetse-fly-on-the-scrotum scenario. But the Chief Judge, who is the arbiter to whom all have come, has astute eyes and wisdom. He would look at the matter as a father to whom issues involving his children have been brought by an enraged outsider.
This matter should be of enough concern for the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. His men have been brought into the firing line of the PDP this-and-that. If there is no basis, a woman does not take the name “Ikumolu.”
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