Politics
New PDP may dump APC this week
Speculations are heightened that the members of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) may dump the ruling party within the week.
This came as the nPDP group led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje on Sunday announced that it was going to make its position on the way forward known by this week.
In a statement released by the Kawu Baraje Media Office in Ilorin, Kwara State on Sunday, the nPDP leader was quoted as saying that within the week his group must have concluded consultations and deliberations on the issue and make their decision public.
“We will make our positions known to Nigerians in the first week of July. By then, we would have concluded our consultations and come up with our position on all the things we stood for which are not for personal gains but rather in the general interest of the downtrodden masses.
“We have been meeting regularly and the time is now ripe to make our positions known to all well -meaning Nigerians. The cooperate interest of the citizens of this country and a united Nigeria where no man is oppressed is paramount and very dear to our hearts,” Baraje said.
The group alleges that it is being marginalised in the APC, and have had meetings with the party leadership and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Their hopes of having a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari was recently blocked by alleged statements credited to Buhari that he will not be meeting with the aggrieved nPDP members.
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Buhari was alleged to have said that they should continue their meeting with his Vice to address their ill feelings.
Meanwhile, Ripples Nigeria gathered that talks between the nPDP and the APC will continue this week. The party as gathered is hopeful that all vexed issues will be addressed amicably at the end.
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