A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, is confident that the PDP will continue to be one of the leading parties in the country despite the crisis that has threatened its existence over the last 12 months.

During an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, November 20, Sowunmi disagreed that the largest opposition party is nearing its end.

The PDP is currently embroiled in a leadership crisis, but Sowunmi, who is among those seeking to take up the national chairmanship position of the party, insists that the party will never die.

Founded in 1998, the PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 years before it lost a presidential election for the first time in 2015 after President Muhammadu Buhari defeated former President Goodluck Jonathan.

“PDP is this, PDP is that; who killed it? A party that did not die when Obasanjo tore his card, a party that did not die when Jonathan stood down, a party that did not die all these years is going to die, PDP dieth not,” Sowunmi exclaimed.

He also pointed to President Bola Tinubu as the problem of the PDP, saying that the President had no business appointing a PDP member, Nyesom Wike, as a minister.

“PDP would like to say Wike is the problem, but I would rather say President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He has no business appointing our member into his cabinet without talking to us,” he said.

He said that when President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to form a government of national unity, he consulted widely, which he said Tinubu failed to do, causing division in the opposition party.