Tuesday, 26 November 2013
APC AND PDP MERGER, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ASKED TO GO.
Late
this morning, at about 11:46, the National Chairman of the New Peoples
Democratic Party (nPDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, formally announced the
merger of the party with the All Progressives Congress (APC). The merger was
contained in a communiqué which Alhaji Baraje read to journalists at the end of
a meeting between the leadership of New PDP and that of the APC held at the
Kano Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The communiqué signed by Bisi Akande the APC
National Chairman and Kawu Abubakar Baraje the National Chairman of NPDP reads,
“A meeting of the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the new PDP
met this morning at the residence of the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso, in Abuja and after exhaustive deliberations the two parties agreed
to merge in order to rescue our fledgling democracy and the nation” .
With this development, the G7 Governors of New PDP, namely,
Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Aliyu
Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Rotimi
Amaechi (Rivers), are now members of the APC. The merger thus shoots up the
number of APC State Governors to 18 while PDP’s shrinks to 16, with All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Labour Party having one governor each. A
similar permutation exists in the National Assembly where we now have the
majority with PDP and its allies in minority.
The
simple meaning of this is that APC is now the majority party in the country
while PDP has become a minority party. In the circumstances, President Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan must now start writing his handover notes because his ambition
to maouevre the party structures so as to get a third term in office in 2015
has suddenly collapsed.
What a sudden change of fortune! What a sad day for the PDP, a
party which we laboured to build, which was viciously taken away from us but
which, out of our great love for it, we did everything humanly possible to save
but were frustrated by the unpatriotic elements that have usurped the
leadership of the party.
Nigerians could recall that several meetings had been held between
the APC leaders and the leaders of the New PDP. The APC had visited each of our
seven New PDP governors in their states to convince them to join its fold but
all these notwithstanding while the PDP Leadership on their own side were
plotting on daily basis on how to frustrate us out of the party we suffered to
nurture.
The fact remains that we did all within our powers to reconcile
with PDP to no avail and sadly our dear President allowed the hawks within the
Presidency and PDP Leadership to convince him to abort our last Sunday’s
meeting that would have brought a last peace to our party which the PDP
leadership under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur frustrated, so we have no other option
than to formally announce the death and burial of PDP. Day and night we cried out,
begging whoever loved PDP to join us to rescue the party from imminent doom but
we were conveniently ignored and abused. Just last night, we issued the last in
a series of passionate appeals to PDP Elders to take urgent steps to save the
troubled party in the face of their unbelievable silence in the face of the
chain of developments instigated by factional National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga
Tukur, which has put the party at the edge of the precipice.
Now, we have reached the stage that we can only say: “PDP, your
sinking ship has been abandoned to you! You brought this misfortune upon
yourself, now you must bear it alone!”
As for us, we are happy to belong to the APC, where our value is
appreciated, where we are made to feel truly wanted, and where we can now join
forces with like minds in our struggle to liberate Nigeria from PDP’s misrule,
which is soon to end.
Among those at the Tuesday’s historical merger meeting were APC
leader and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu; APC National Chairman, Bisi
Akande; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso: former Kwara governor and serving
senator, Bukola Saraki; former Nasarawa governor and serving senator, Abdullahi
Adamu; former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva; and Adamawa State Governor,
Murtala Nyako.
Others were former Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Aminu Masari; Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi; National Secretary of the
PDP, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former Abia governor, Ogbonnaya Onu; former PDP vice
chairman, Sam Jaja; Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed; and Niger State
Governor, Babangida Aliyu.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
National Publicity Secretary, NPDP
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