Politics
2019: PDP goes into alliance with 4 political parties to push out APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is optimistic that the ruling All Progress Congress (APC) must be voted out from the seat of presidency by 2019 general election.
To achieve this aim, the party met with four other political parties in Abuja on Thursday which vowed to work together to make sure that the APC does not continue to lead the country beyond 2019.
Earlier on Wednesday, a former Minister of Information and member of the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP, Jerry Gana, had disclosed during the presentation of a report by PDP’s Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee, in Abuja, that the party is already in talks with seven parties, who are willing join forces with the party to throw APC out.
Gana, who is the chairman of the PDP committee, was optimistic that the Muhammadu Buhari-led APC must be defeated in 2019, said that the political parties PDP are in talks with are the ones that have strong democratic tenets.
However, it was learnt that the four parties that met with the PDP were Peoples Redemption Party, Social Democratic Party, Accord Party and Alliance for Democracy.
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According to Gana, the alliance is not going to lead into a mega party as people are already alleging, but will be a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP.
The PDP and the other four political parties in a communique following their meeting on Thursday claimed the cries of many Nigerians on the country’s situation since the coming of APC was the major reason they are uniting, adding that their mission is to save the country from total collapse.
They vowed to unite and work concertedly to actualise the aspiration of majority of Nigerians who are now suffering untold hardship under APC leadership.
While a good number of Nigerians are not happy with APC promised change that has continued to be elusive, the crisis rocking the former ruling party, which occupied the seat of the country’s presidency from 1999 until it was voted out in the 2015 general elections, is also not helping in positioning PDP as a better alternative.
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Animashaun Ayodeji
February 10, 2017 at 7:38 am
Looking at other political parties joining hands with PDP, one can immediately tell they are all failures. Let them add more parties to themselves, they will still fail. APC has promised Nigerians change, we cannot decide if the party has failed us until December 2018 at least. For now, we are still in the process of change, that’s why there’s hardship in Nigeria.
Johnson Amadi
February 10, 2017 at 8:19 am
You’re the FAILURE here Mr. Ayodeji, how much has APC given you that’s stopping you from speaking the truth? You have subjected yourself to their leadership and hardship on what grounds? Is it not obvious that this APC government cannot deliver? ARr you not seeing the traces that many Nigerians will die of hunger if things continue like this till 2019? Instead of you to speak the truth, support whatever party with good agenda, you’re busy polishing and protecting APC that is causing you and your generation poverty.
Margret Dickson
February 10, 2017 at 7:41 am
With or without joining forces with other political parties, Nigerians will vote APC out in 2019. We have suffered enough, the worst PDP’s administration was not as worst as this first tenure of APC. APC is truly a novice in this, they don’t know how to hold a country together. All they can do is hold few states and work well, but the federal body? They cannot handle it.
seyi jelili
February 10, 2017 at 11:01 pm
So is it pdp that knows how to handle the country? You are a mumu . Those in apc now, are they not products of pdp?
Amaka Okoro
February 11, 2017 at 5:05 am
PDP government is more better than APC.PDP make things OK for us but APC come to punish the people in the country
Roland Uchendu Pele
February 10, 2017 at 11:35 am
A PDP that still has different factions is planning to take over power from APC?
It’s funny. They can merge with several other parties all they want, it will be practically impossible to unseat the ruling party as it appears now.
yanju omotodun
February 11, 2017 at 7:00 am
It is tactical and practical to oust out a ruling party as everyone is suffering and tired of the useless change promised by the apc. Even the party of Chris Okotie is enough to oust out pdp.
JOHNSON PETER
February 10, 2017 at 9:58 pm
pdp has finally come to an end. I never knew they could think of alliance like other apc did. Well, I won’t deceive them , even though they formed alliance with other party as a mega party , it won’t change anything. This is the time of apc to shine and they will shine for 16 good years as well.
Amarachi Okoye
February 11, 2017 at 4:57 am
You lied apc can shine now but in 2019 they will stop shining because the chance given to them is a waste because they achieve nothing but failure