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Buhari shuns aggrieved nPDP members

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The hope of President Muhammadu Buhari and the aggrieved members of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) having a meeting to fix their differences may never come to pass.

A top government official who preferred not to be named told newsmen on Monday that President Buhari said that he was not going to sit down and discuss with the aggrieved nPDP members in the APC.

Recall that the nPDP who joined forces to form the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), had some weeks alleged harassment of its members by the Federal Government and being marginalised in APC.
The members, prominent among whom are the Senate President Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara as well as some state governors, vowed to defect to another party if the condition they have been subjected to in the ruling party was not addressed.

The nPDP is one of the groups in 2014 that teamed up with other major groups like the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), to form the APC.

In a letter signed by Alhaji Kawu Baraje, leader of the nPDP to APC leadership on May 9, the group had sought for a meeting within seven days with top officials of the APC to address its grievances.

After the letter, the APC leadership led by deputy national chairman (North) Lawal Shuaibu, met with the nPDP.

There was a follow-up meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, where Saraki and Dogara, who are members of the nPDP were in attendance. They had resolved at the meeting to hold another discussion.

While the meeting is yet to hold, speculations that the members were also to meet with Buhari as gathered may never come to pass as the President was said to have last week told APC governors during a meeting with them that he would not be meeting with the nPDP leaders.

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Buhari was said to have described the grievances expressed by the nPDP as “a party matter.”

“It is a party matter. I am not ready to sit down with any faction. If they have problems, they should go to the party. I will not interfere.

“Governors as party leaders in the states should deal with all issues. Where there is a need, the party leadership can come in. I will not get involved,” President Buhari was quoted to have said.

According to the source, Buhari had however said that the nPDP should continue with the talks with Osinbajo.

 

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