This was the case when Steve Jobs was initially dumped and Apple went down until he was called back to revive the nearly dead tech giant, “Apple”. The same is the case for PDP. The moment these two heavy weight political powers left the party, the failure of the party prevailed and it gave APC a green light.
However, do not make mistake, OBJ is a statesman to the call but his ideas may be too primitive to take us to the next level. We just needed this transition to happen.