APC woos rebel governors to dump PDP
There are indications that the All Progressive Congress (APC) has stepped up its strategies to woo the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into its fold.
It was learnt on Wednesday that the National Vice-Chairman North-East of the APC, Umar Duhu, led a delegation of the party to the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako at the government residence in Yola, and had told the governor that they were at his residence after consultation with the APC leadership to formally invite him to join the party.
The other aggrieved governors otherwise known as rebel governors are prominent members of the New PDP led by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje.
They are Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).
It was gathered that the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, told the visiting APC delegation that himself and the six other aggrieved PDP governors, might dump the PDP for the 'warm embrace of the APC.'
The Director of Press to the Adamawa Governor, Ahmad Sajo, said Nyako expressed his desire and those of his colleagues to join the opposition APC as 'soon as the situation in the PDP becomes unbearable.'
Sajo said, 'The governor told them he is committed to supporting them; he admires all the APC governors for the way they are focused in their performance.
'He abhors the injustice and impunity that are going on in the PDP and he also frowns on the fact that someone would emerge as the party's candidate at the local level and the PDP will change the name of the person in Abuja and submit a different person's name.'
He quoted the governor as saying, 'These are the reasons (injustice and impunity) why we may have to dump the PDP, if they will not change their ways.
'We may definitely be pushed to the warm embrace of the APC because there is so much injustice in the PDP.
'It is a party which renders your efforts null and void after you have gone through the process and secured nomination; a system that takes over your property without giving you an opportunity to defend yourself for whatever infringement you may have committed.
'The PDP operates a system that does not respect other people's point of view; a system that operates on a pre-determined position on all matters is not healthy for democracy.' - Punch.