15/10/2025
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐃𝐏: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐛𝐚𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨-𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲, 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝
In ancient Greek, the fall of mighty Troy did not come through open warfare but through treachery. The Greeks, after years of failed siege, pretended to surrender and left behind a magnificent wooden horse as a gift. The unsuspecting Trojans, thinking that they've won, dragged the horse into their fortified city, not knowing it carried armed soldiers hidden within.
When night came, the enemy emerged from the belly of the horse and opened the city gates to already gathered Greek soldiers who waited for a signal far away. Troy fell, not by invasion, but by what was perceived a gift.
That is precisely the tragedy repeating itself in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today.
Before his dramatic defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State was not just a senior PDP member, he was the Secretary of the Party’s proposed National Convention Committee, slated for November. He sat at the heart of the process, pretending to serve the PDP, while secretly aligning with the APC. Today, his defection exposes the truth: the PDP’s Trojan horse was built in Enugu.
Since the APC can't outrightly overwhelm the PDP, like the Greeks on Troy, they gifted us Mbah, so as to defeat the party from the inside, but he will fail. His defection and antecedents has told us all that we needed to know.
Now that Mbah has moved to the APC, dragging along his entire cabinet, state lawmakers, and even his predecessor, it has become clear that the very foundation of the planned convention is faulty.
Who will now serve as secretary of a PDP convention whose architect has joined the ruling party? How can such a process be legitimate? The convention, under these circumstances, cannot and will not hold. To proceed would be to build on illegality, an action that the party’s constitution and conscience must never permit.
Allowing the convention to hold, will make the PDP make same mistake that Troy did, and we all know the outcome: Total defeat, annihilation.
Mbah, knowing his real intentions, infiltrated the PDP Convention Committee with known or soon-to-be APC loyalists. Chief Ali Odefa, a man expelled from the PDP by his ward and whose expulsion has been upheld by a competent court, still signed vital convention documents at the behest of Mbah and Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State. His involvement alone renders any convention proceeding null and void. The supposed convention chairman, the Governor of Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri is equally on his way to the APC.
Clearly, what we see today is not coincidence, it is a coordinated infiltration by the Greek horse.
Governor Mbah and his co-travelers planted themselves within the PDP to weaken it from inside, to sell its structures, and to trade its integrity for personal gain. But just as Troy learned, no empire survives when deceit builds its walls.
The PDP must act swiftly, cleanse itself of these political mercenaries, and rebuild on truth and loyalty. The soul of the party is greater than any individual’s ambition, and no matter how dark the night, truth must prevail. The convention, if it must come, must be built on legitimacy, not betrayal.
Signed:
Hon. Prince Ify Chijioke,
Special Assistant on Media & Publicity
Office of the National Vice Chairman, PDP South East Zone
