How PDP Govs, Big Wigs Perfected Plans To Dump Party For SDP

Fresh revelations have emerged about how governors and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) schemed to abandon the party for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) if the erstwhile chairman of the party, Sen Ali Modu Sheriff, had won the legal battle over the leadership of the party.

LEADERSHIP Sunday learnt that the decision to massively dump the PDP was reached following a recommendation by the Strategy and Inter Party Affairs Committee headed by former PDP chieftain, Prof Jerry Gana.

The recommendation was the outcome of meetings between the PDP committee and other political parties, including the SDP, which sought to forge a mega political force to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019.

This revelation, however, counters an earlier disclosure by former national chairmanship aspirant of PDP and media mogul, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who said he got the support of party organs to form the Advance Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) in case the Sen Ahmed Makarfi-led faction lost to Sheriff’s camp at the Supreme Court.

LEADERSHIP, March 18, 2018

 

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