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PDP crisis: Jonathan’s men, APGA form new party

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The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may soon take another turn, as a faction of the party in collaboration with another faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Tuesday formed a new political party, Peoples Mega Party (PMP) in Abuja.

The new party is led by Perry Opara, an aide to former Special Adviser on Political Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak.
It would be recalled that Gukak, after successfully getting a court to declare former acting national chairman of the party an illegal occupant of the position, declared himself as the national chairman of the PDP.
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Opara, at the National Executive Council/national retreat held by the promoters of the new party, said the party’s mission was to provide a focused and patriotic body, adding that the crisis over the resignation of the former National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu also led to the setting up of the new party.

He said: “We tried to examine why the party lost, how to rebrand it and all that but unfortunately, all efforts were rebuffed.
“We went through the country to see who would represent us. We went to Alex Ekwueme and Sen. Ken Nnamani to lead us.

“At a stage, Ekwueme led a delegation to the national headquarters of the party to allow the North-East have a new chairman.
“For four hours, we couldn’t get any word from the NWC as words of commitment. We all left in anger and in dejection.”

According to him, unlike what happened in England where the leaders of a particular political party resigned after losing election, leaders of the PDP decided to entrench themselves after leading the party to defeat.

“That is impunity. Some said they were going to make the party strong and make it a strong opposition party,” he added.

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