Adetokunbo Pearse, a public affairs analyst and convener of the Reset Lagos PDP, argues in a candid interview on TVC TV that demands to penalize party members for anti-party activities during the 2023 election disregard the more significant concern of the APC's adept utilization of media manipulation, which is led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu's media strategy effectively pitted party members against one another, causing a significant number of PDP supporters to vote for the APC; thus, the origin of the "anti-party" activities is difficult to ascertain, according to him.
The author proposes that the party ought to prioritize gaining insights from Tinubu's media strategy as an alternative course of action to attributing the electoral defeat to specific members.
He said, "It is not about Wike, people have been clamoring we must punish those who did anti-party this 2023. You are dealing with Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is a master of the media, he set us against each other, it was incredible. He used the media so effectively. A lot of people went against the party, a lot of candidates came up and nobody wanted to support them in the party and so on. Some people in the party decided they were going to support the APC, where are you going to begin the suspension?"
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