Senator Owie Predicts
OpenLife Nigeria reports that a former Chief Whip in the Senate, Senator Roland Owie, has dismissed the possibility of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, surviving its current disintegration crises.
In a press statement on Thursday, May 29, 2025, Owie said what transpired at the National Executive Council, NEC meeting of the party was not the deliberation of a serious opposition but a sham gathering of enablers, political relics, and morally bankrupt operators desperate to hold onto the crumbling remnants of a failed establishment.
It would be recalled that following the fall out of the 2023 presidential election in which former Rivers State governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike, openly worked against the PDP for Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC to win the election, things further deteriorated to the extent that Wike, who currently serves as a Minister in the APC government even as he retains his membership in the PDP, has publicly said he would mobilize for APC to win the presidency again in 2027.
Wike’s pronouncement has set the stage for mass defection of PDP’s leading figures to the APC.
To save the situation, those who believe that PDP could still be rescued e named former Senate President Bukola Saraki as the head of a seven-member reconciliation committee.
The PDP-GF Chairman, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, announced this while briefing newsmen after the forum’s crucial meeting with former governors in Abuja.
Mohammed said that the seven-member committee was mandated to reconcile aggrieved members ahead of the PDP National Executive Committee meeting schedule for May 27 and the forthcoming national convention in August.
“We are here with all the governors elected under the party, that are still in the party and a substantial number of former PDP governors, with our leaders, the chairman of the party, and some members of the National Working Committee.
“We discussed some of the issues relating to our party, some existential issues, of course that have been circulating in the media and among us, so that we will be able to navigate smoothly for the NEC scheduled to take place on May 27 and by August, we will have an early convention.
“So many issues and reports have been made, and it is an opportunity to close ranks, and to make sure that at least there is no ill feelings, there are no qualms, there are no misgivings between the leaders of the party.
“Governors of the party have reached out to our colleagues who have been there before, who have more experience.
”Whatever suggestions or opinions they may have will go a long way in giving an added impetus to the actualisation of our NEC, and our convention that is scheduled to take place on specific days.
“We want to reassure our teaming supporters that the PDP is working. The PDP is united,” Mohammed said.
Members of the committee are governors Dauda Lawal of Zamfara, Caleb Muftwang of Plateau, and Peter Mba of Enugu State.
Other members are Sen. Seriake Dickson, Sen. Ibrahim Dankwambo, and former governor of Abia State, Chief Okezie Ikpeazu.
Others in attendance of the meeting held at the Bauchi Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, include governors of Enugu, Zamfara, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa, Osun and Oyo states.
Others are the Minister of FCT Nyesom Wike, and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi.
Others are Sen. Aminu Tambuwal, Sule Lamido, Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom, Gabriel Suswam, Seriake Dickson, Sam Egwu, Liyel Imoke, Achike Udenwa, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Adamu Muazu and Idris Wada.
With the stage set for reconciliation, Bukola Saraki, with the poise of a political medic went to work, holding meetings with stakeholders which led to North Central Congress that held in Plateau State.
Reacting, Senator Roland Owie, described the latest National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as a national embarrassment and a decisive indictment of a party that has completely lost its way.
He said: “The PDP’s national leadership has disgraced itself beyond redemption. The acting National Chairman, rather than offering direction or principle, continues to function as a caretaker of the weak and compromised, and wholly incapable of restoring the party’s integrity.
“Under his watch, the PDP has drifted further into irrelevance, serving as a convenient playground for discredited power brokers who have long outlived their usefulness.
“The National Working Committee (NWC), has become nothing more than a rubber stamp for elite interests. It is paralyzed by factionalism, devoid of strategic vision, and complicit in the party’s decay. These are not party stewards, they are political undertakers overseeing the slow burial of what was once a national movement.
“Equally complicit is the so-called Reconciliation Committee, which has proven utterly ineffective in addressing the PDP’s deep-seated fractures. Their efforts are cosmetic at best: public relations stunts that paper over rot, rather than confront it. Instead of healing wounds, they have legitimised dysfunction and institutionalised failure.”
Owie equally took a swipe at the Board of Trustees (BoT), saying the BoT has now become a collection of docile bystanders who are more interested in preserving influence than upholding principle, describing their silence in the face of blatant mismanagement and moral collapse as both damning and inexcusable.
“Together, this leadership structure has failed the Nigerian people. Not just by losing elections, but by abandoning the very essence of opposition: accountability, discipline, and the courage to speak truth to power. The PDP is no longer an opposition part; it is a political carcass feeding off its past relevance.”
“The notion that this party can be salvaged is no longer tenable. No serious reform can emerge from a foundation so thoroughly compromised. The PDP is not just fractured; it is finished.
“We therefore declare, with absolute clarity and without reservation: that the PDP has no future. It cannot be trusted with the hopes of Nigerians, nor should it be considered a viable platform for national renewal.
“The time for illusions is over. The path forward lies in a new coalition—built not on recycled failures but on integrity, competence, and national vision. This is the imperative of our time.
“We close the chapter on PDP. On coalition, we stand,” Owie said.
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