The resort to personal attacks by the two main political parties in the ongoing presidential campaigns is worrisome, write Shola Oyeyipo and Ojo M. Maduekwe
This is arguably the most interesting presidential campaigns since the present republic. The battle has always been between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the rather inconsequential opposition. If the PDP ever had any challenges, it has always been as a result of its internal contradictions. The opposition has never been strong enough to threaten the existence of the PDP, regardless of their resort to seeking redress at the courts. The PDP has hitherto been the in-thing and was so carried away by palpable indications occasioned by a non-competitive environment that it boasted to rule the country for over 50 years.
Suddenly, that dream appears to be crashing and at a speed the leadership of the PDP appears unable to comprehend. The birth of an otherwise formidable opposition in the mould of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has become PDP’s nightmare. With Dr. Goodluck Jonathan on the one side and General Muhammadu Buhari on the other side, the lead up to this month’s general election has been fired up by such stiff competition that seems to be undermining the mythical weight of incumbency.
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