STRONG indications have emerged that some governors of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, plan to take over the yet-to-be registered All
Progressive Congress, APC.
The governors are said to be planning to use the crises rocking the
PDP to move to the APC, just as the leadership of the coalition of
opposition political parties was expecting 23 governors as its members.
It was gathered that the planned defection would be actualised once
the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, registers APC as a
political party ahead of the 2015 elections, just as this would
constitute a new challenge for the APC against the backdrop that a new
power base in the new party will emerge.
A source at the APC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity,
however, expressed the fear that should the plan scale through, the
defecting governors would outnumber the founding governors of the APC
leading to their overbearing influence in the running of the party’s
affairs.
According to the source, there was the likelihood that the PDP
governors share same feelings and that will in turn lead them to think
in the same way which may be different from the feelings of the original
members of the APC. “That is why we believe that great care must be
taken in accepting the PDP governors whose mission is yet to be clearly
defined.,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Sunday Vanguard learnt yesterday that the Peoples
Democratic Movement (PDM) has concluded moves to cash-in on the
anticipated exodus from the PDP to reposition itself within what they
see as “the new PDP.”
According to a top member of the PDM, formed by the late Major
General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, the group was quietly working on a new
direction. He added: “There is an internal debate regarding if PDM
should become a party or remain a movement based on their strength and
number but the general consensus seems to point towards a further
consolidation of the movement and an affinity with the new PDP unless
it rejects them.”
The source remarked that PDM, which parades former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar and Chief (Mrs) Titi Ajanaku, among others, as members,
had turned itself into a third force in the political scene against
the backdrop that its members are scattered among the major political
parties in the country.
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