Sir, he had several months leading the NCM vote and then a full year after he was ousted to make a 'strategy' but he didn't make good choices while he was the PM in the months before the NCM vote nor in the year after his ouster where he was free, had the megaphone for his 'narrative' building.
And just now, despite his party veterans' appeals, he made another terrible choice by largely boycotting the by-elections. It is well understood by now in Pakistani politics to not let your opposition have a free hit despite the odds by boycotting the elections and yet he ignored his advisors again! Benazir Bhutto lamented her party's boycott of the 1985 elections till decades later, as did MQM when they gave the ground to Jamat e Islami.
There is so much credit we can give to a dimwit. Only so much.