Jude Imagwe, former senior special assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on youth and student matters, has asked Governor Bala Mohammed to resign as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors’ forum.
Imagwe said Mohammed has failed in the leadership of the forum and is presiding over the decline of the party that accommodated him after the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) failed him.
In an open letter addressed to the Bauchi governor, Imagwe said the intervention was written “in the spirit of responsibility to history and loyalty to the institution we all claim to serve”.
His words: “There are rare moments in the life of a political party when silence becomes complicity and truth becomes an obligation. The People’s Democratic Party stands at such a moment today.”
He said unless Governor Mohammed had something “fundamentally corrective” left to do, history would record his tenure as record-setting in damage.
“When you assumed leadership of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the party stood with fourteen governors. Today, the arithmetic of decline is stark and humiliating: governors by day, none by night; presence in name, absence in power. This is not routine opposition politics; it is institutional erosion,” he said.
Imagwe said leadership is not ceremonial but the capacity to anticipate danger, arbitrate conflict and act decisively.
“When wisdom advised caution, it was dismissed. When unity demanded humility, arrogance prevailed,” Imagwe added.
He said the PDP’s decline was also a result of rejected counsel, including advice from former Senate President Bukola Saraki.
“That counsel was brushed aside. Today, the consequences stare the party in the face: a hollowed structure, diminished leverage, and a party negotiating its survival rather than shaping national debate,” Imagwe said.
He said resignation at such a moment would not amount to weakness but accountability.
“Honour in politics is not measured by how long one clings to office, but by when one recognises the need to step aside for the survival of the institution,” he said.
Imagwe warned that political parties do not die suddenly but bleed internally through ignored warnings and delayed decisions.
“What Nigeria witnesses today is not an accident; it is the predictable outcome of leadership deferred,” he said.
He added that there remains a narrow window for Mohammed to act in line with honour, conscience and responsibility.
“This is the moment to rise above factional loyalty and choose institutional survival. This is the moment to act, before history concludes that when the PDP cried for rescue, leadership heard the cry and walked away,” he added.
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