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PDP dreams merger but not change of name

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The PDP has said that though it is open to merging with other political parties and associations that share its ideals, it is not contemplating a change of identity, noting that the vision of its founding fathers remains timeless.

The party insisted that it was still a national political party with the strength and spread to regain pre-eminence, despite losing control of the Federal Government and some states in the last general elections.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said that “having been the guardian of Nigerian democracy for 16 years during which it nurtured and blossomed democratic governance as well as etched its name in the pantheon of good governance, the PDP will not in the circumstance of ephemeral loss of power change its identity or its time-honoured characteristic values.”

It said, “We shall rise beyond all and regain our rhythm”.

The party added that the fact that it was going into opposition would not mitigate its ability as the flagship of democracy, maintaining that it would soar higher in providing credible alternative as a constructive opposition, “far removed from the wrathful destruction that the APC lived thus far.”

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