21/01/2014
Abdukadir: No difference between Nigeria's new and former PDP chair
The PDP has recently suffered from a string of defections to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and has lost its parliamentary majority. For an assessment of its situation, DW spoke to Tukur Abdulkadir, a lecturer in political science at Kaduna State University. DW: Can the new chairman win back for the party the support that it has lost? Tukur Abdulkadir: It looks unlikely that he can win back the support or stop the current upsurge in terms of defection from the party. He doesn't even have the capacity to do that. And what we have all failed to understand is that the manner of his election is not fundamentally different from the manner...
