PDP
The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) may experience another
gale of defection as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday,
claimed it was concluding discussions with six governors and 27 members
of the National Assembly elected on the platform of APC ahead of their
defection to the party.
The opposition party revealed that discussions on control of party
structures in the affected states and senatorial zones had also reached
advance stage and would be completed in a couple of weeks after which
the governors and lawmakers would announce their defection to PDP.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Kola Ologbondiyan, made this known in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja.
He stressed that in line with decisions reached at the discussions,
the members of the National Assembly defecting to the PDP would
announce their defection when the National Assembly reconvenes, adding
that it will increase the PDP majority in both chambers.
He said: “PDP has already concluded discussions with six APC
governors and 27 APC members in the National Assembly, who have also
drawn their consultations and secured the mandates of their constituents
to move to the PDP ahead of the 2019 general election.
“The party assures that all grey areas of the agreement,
including issues of waivers and accommodation for participation in
primaries, are being smoothened out by the former Governor Liyel
Imoke-led PDP Contact and Integration Committee, which has been
galvanising our alliances among stakeholders across other parties,
including those from the APC.
“These interests and movements from the APC to the PDP are
indicators of the consensus by Nigerians to rally on the platform of the
PDP to end the economic hardship, bloodletting, violence and
infrastructural decay that have become the hallmark of the President
Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, and return our nation to the
path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which the PDP
is known for.”
The party expressed its readiness to take back control of power at
the center, as well as in our traditional states of Plateau, Niger,
Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Jigawa,
Zamfara, Imo, Edo as well as southwest states of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo
and Lagos states.