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MEGA PARTY: Buhari’s ministers, govs named as sponsors
The intrigues and political manoeuvring that will shape the 2019 general elections have begun to unfold with revelations that some serving ministers and governors on the platform of the two major political parties are deeply involved in the formation and funding of the much touted mega party; Action Democratic Party, ADP, which this week began its registration process.
Saturday Sun gathered that beside the serving ministers and governors, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, his father, Chief Alani Bankole and a minister of state for Agriculture under President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Awodele Najeem Adewale have been named among notable promoters of the emerging party from the Southwest zone.
One of the top leaders of the yet to be registered party from the North who pleaded anonymity, told Saturday Sun on Thursday that “our support base cuts across party lines and cadres” when prodded to name some of the ministers involved in the party, said “it would be suicidal to mention their names now. But they are people not happy within the system but should they be dropped in the imminent cabinet shake-up, Nigerians will surely know them.”
On the governors in secret romance with the party, the source gave the same excuse “for fear of persecution.”
Further investigations by Saturday Sun however, revealed that a prominent All Progressives Congress, APC governor in the Northwest and another Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governor from the South-South are among the chief promoters of the party , aside their colleagues in the two major political parties.
Most of the big personalities involved in the new party, who are chieftains of the ruling APC, it was learnt are still playing hide-and-seek with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, in order to avoid any backlash.
Sun, January 14, 2017
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JOHNSON PETER
January 15, 2017 at 11:28 am
How I wish it is even credible people that are behind the formation of the new party, I could have said they might dethrone apc in 2019. But corrupt and uncelebrated Bankole and his father can’t make mountain from mole hill.
chichi emerue
January 15, 2017 at 3:52 pm
Is that not useless Bankole who likes wearing white attire every time then and was involved in #40b scandal. I hope he is not trying to contest for any political appointment in his life again?
yanju omotodun
January 15, 2017 at 11:53 am
Sincerely 2019 election will be tough. It is going to witness different region forming their mega parties but if we are to go by number, then the north will still be at the helms of affairs except the East and South west will team up against the north. The colonial masters have already put in place a strong political structures that will always favour the north.
seyi jelili
January 15, 2017 at 12:07 pm
That’s the tears and pains of the South west. No matter how we unite, we can’t produce a president because our population is not up to the North. The igbos will never support us after what Awolowo had done to them in 1970 during the civil war. Igbos will prefer to align with the North.
Joy Madu
January 15, 2017 at 3:47 pm
Thank GOD you know we Igbos can’t pally with traitors like the Yorubas. We are going to get our own Biafra country soon.
Margret Dickson
January 15, 2017 at 1:45 pm
I See this as a coup against APC ahead of the 2019 general elections. If care isn’t taken, the election may turn bloody. But, let’s see if the said Mega party would survive or die before 2019
Animashaun Ayodeji
January 15, 2017 at 2:03 pm
If this mega party is the party that will change the story of Nigeria from bad to good, they should go and register and start accepting new members. I’m tired of what PDP and APC atr doing
Roland Uchendu Pele
January 15, 2017 at 3:32 pm
So this Mega Party is real? Wow…let this happen, please! We need to be out of this mess.