TheFall of The PDP andThe Cyclical Theory: A Historian's Revisitation
As I keep witnessing changes in the political lifespan of the Peoples Democraic Party (PDP) in Nigeria today I can't stop smiling inside me. I have heard of the statement 'history repeats itself' but I think I have never seen it practically as I do in Ibn Khaldun's "Cyclical Theory" its just like what one historian calls scissors and paste history. When I was an Undergraduate with my colleagues we sit dormant under the nose of our learned professor while he took us as usual back to the 15th century, he was engaging us in a book written during this period by a renowned historian, political scientist, and sociologist Ibn Khaldun titled In Arabic "The Muqaddimah" that is the Introduction. Prof explains to us the cyclical theory demonstrated by Ibn Khaldun and he said the theory was about the raise and fall of kingdoms in history. One thing was important in the rise and fall of kingdoms in history and that is the role played by corruption in bringing ...