Former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Youth and Student Matters, Jude Imagwe, has told Governor Bala Mohammed to take the path of honour and resigned having failed as Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum.

Imagwe also said the Bauchi State governor is presiding over the death of the party that accommodated him when the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) failed him.

Imagwe, in an open letter addressed to Mohammed, said the memo was written in the spirit of responsibility to history and loyalty to the institution they all claimed to serve.

“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. Once the platform that anchored Nigeria’s democratic stability and commanded national confidence, the PDP now confronts its most profound internal crisis since formation, one that demands honest reflection, decisive leadership, and urgent corrective action. This letter is written not in anger, but in alarm, and in fidelity to history. There are moments when the survival of an institution demands that truth be spoken plainly, without adornment or fear,” Imagwe said.

The former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said except Governor Mohammed had something fundamentally corrective left to do for the PDP, history will record his watch as record-setting in damage.

“When you assumed leadership of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the party stood with 14 governors, a formidable bloc capable of stabilising crises, enforcing discipline, and projecting relevance. 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.

“Leadership is not ceremonial. It is not the art of occupying a seat while the house burns. Leadership is the capacity to anticipate danger, arbitrate conflict, and act decisively. On these counts, the record indicts. When wisdom advised caution, it was dismissed. When unity demanded humility, arrogance prevailed. When compromise could have preserved the party, factional triumphalism took centre stage. Silence was mistaken for strategy, delay for diplomacy.”

He said PDP’s descent is a story of rejected counsel.

“When former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, a leader forged in crisis management and institutional repair, offered guidance, it was not theoretical. It was borne of experience and sacrifice. 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.

“Perhaps the most searing irony of this moment is the party’s posture toward institutions. An electoral umpire repeatedly undermined and dismissed, Independent National Electoral Commission, has now become the gatekeeper of order, while the PDP waits, weakened, for determinations it once would have negotiated from strength. When institutions you belittled become the arbiters of your survival, the lesson is severe: power without prudence is fleeting; institutions outlast arrogance.

“This crisis is not merely about conventions, courtrooms, or procedures. It is about moral authority squandered and strategic coherence abandoned. A Governors’ Forum that should have served as the party’s stabilising anchor drifted into complicity by inaction. Where leadership should have brokered peace, it permitted fracture. Where it should have enforced discipline, it tolerated disorder. Where it should have drawn red lines, it blurred them.

“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. Resignation in moments like this is not weakness; it is accountability. Parties are larger than personalities. History respects leaders who understand that truth before collapse becomes irreversible.”

While saying that political parties do not die suddenly, Imagwe added that they bleed internally, through ignored warnings, delayed decisions, and leaders who mistake patience for strategy.

“What Nigeria witness today is not an accident; it is the predictable outcome of leadership deferred.

“Your Excellency, history is already being written. It will ask a simple, unforgiving question:

“When the PDP was bleeding from within, who rose to bind the wounds, and who folded their arms and watched the blood drain away? History is not sentimental; it records actions, silences, and delays with equal precision. Moments of crisis do not forgive neutrality. They demand courage.

“Before this tragedy is finally sealed, before the PDP is written off as a buried party under your leadership, there remains a narrow window to do what honour, conscience, and responsibility require. Leadership is not proven by how long one holds the reins, but by how one responds when the horse is collapsing beneath the weight of neglect.

“We cannot credibly claim to be resisting the excesses of one strongman only to manufacture another centre of conflict that will haunt the party tomorrow. We cannot tear down one fault line today while deliberately laying the foundation for another crisis in the future. Correction that breeds repetition is not reform; it is deferred failure.

“The PDP must not become a party that merely replaces personalities while preserving the same destructive patterns. If today’s silence births tomorrow’s confrontation, then we have learned nothing. If today’s refusal to act creates the need for another painful reckoning in the future, then history will judge not only those who acted wrongly, but those who knew better and chose comfort over courage.

“This is the moment to break the cycle. 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,” Imagwe stated. (The Sun)