‘New PDP’ will join APC if PDP talks fail – Kwankwaso Posted By Editor On 8th September, 2013. Under Featured, POLITICS Indications have emerged that should the ongoing talks to resolve the political impasse threatening the Peoples Democratic Party fail to yield any tangible result, the ‘New PDP’ might decamp to the All Progressive Congress, APC. Kano State Governor, Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, disclosed this to the Hausa Service of the BBC Friday, ahead of the Tuesday meeting of the party scheduled to discuss the crisis. According to Kwankwaso, who is also an arrowhead of the group of five northern governors that have been traversing the country to seek ways of re-uniting the ruling. party, if genuine truce fails the governors have several options from which to chose, including that of defecting to another party. He noted that: “if PDP leaders are circumspect and heed our requests, then we will remain in the fold. But if we smell a rat, we don’t have any stress moving to APC because many of its stalwarts are our people.” The governor revealed that apart from the seven of them that joined the splinter PDP-II, there were other governors, who although have not indicated their support in public, were sympathetic to their move of protesting against the PDP-I chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:30:03 +0000
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