Nigeria's President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
'Nigerian parties have no ideologies, they are simply conglomerates created to win elections....' Kalu Aja
Partly true.
PDP, however, seems to be steadily developing a unique vision- a vision of inclusion of all Nigerians in the leadership of the nation, instead of the focus on majority number ethnic groups and the control of the nation by the older alliances of military leaders and regional power blocs.
This is demonstrated in PDP's three time support of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan( GEJ) for the Presidency against the mantra of 'it is the turn of the North', even in the face of the Boko Haram opposition to GEJ's Presidency and later Boko Haram anger centred opposition to GEJ's leadership.
The PDP, under GEJ, became a party that left behind the culture of political assassinations and gagging of freedom of speech that often characterized earlier administrations before Yaradua who came just before GEJ.
I see the PDP as shaped by the GEJ administration as providing an ideological vision for a future Nigeria.
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