Two women in King Solomon’s kingdom had claimed a certain living child belonged to them. One had mistakenly killed her child while sleeping and decided to lay claim to another child belonging to her roommate. The wisdom of King Solomon resolved the riddle. While the real mother opposed to the suggestion that the living child be divided into two for the two women, the mate making false claim was comfortable with the King’s verdict. King Solomon needed no further proof to know who owned what among the two women. Between Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, one of them must be sincere in their struggle to lead the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). One must also be genuine in his claim of trying to return the party to its winning form, whereas the other may be faking it.
The struggle for the soul of the party has continued since the last general election in 2015. The dramatis personae have been in and out of law courts, each holding opposite ends of the umbrella party. Both of them have huge followership. The recent Appeal court ruling in favour of Sheriff may have deepened the crisis. But methinks that the best way to resolve the impasse is for the likes of former president Goodluck Jonathan, Anthony Anenih, Alex Ekwueme and other founding fathers of the party to officially declare PDP dead and advise Sheriff and Makarfi to go their separate ways with their supporters. They are free to register their groups with any name they may deem suitable. And since the two contending factions claim they love PDP so much, any of the factions that buys into the suggestion of the elders to scrap the party, would then be seen as not loving the party sufficiently enough to lead it; whereas any of them that weeps and groans over such suggestion and therefore, offers to back down would be considered a genuine lover of the party.
