Former PDP chieftain and federal lawmaker, Dachung Musa Bagos, has defended the decision of some politicians to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, saying those who moved on are not traitors but realists responding to the party’s collapse. According to him, the PDP has lost its sense of direction and no longer represents a viable political alternative in Nigeria.

Bagos said internal conflicts, leadership failure and constant infighting have weakened the party beyond repair. He noted that many members stayed for years hoping for reforms, but repeated attempts to rebuild the PDP from within failed due to entrenched interests and lack of sincerity among party leaders.

He stressed that politicians who exited the PDP did so in the interest of their constituents and political survival, not for personal betrayal. Bagos added that politics should be about service, vision and structure, and any party that fails to provide these will naturally lose relevance.

Bagos urged remaining PDP members to face reality and either genuinely reform the party or accept that Nigerians are looking elsewhere for leadership. He also called for issue-based politics rather than emotional attachment to party names.