PDP governors may defect to APC 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
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:28:46 +0000
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