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Still aggrieved, nPDP speaks on plans for APC convention

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Still aggrieved, nPDP speaks on plans for APC convention

New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) bloc of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has responded to allegations that its members are planning to boycott the party’s national convention on Saturday, June 23.

The leader of the aggrieved group, who complain of being marginalised in the APC, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, said in response to the boycott claim that members of the nPDP will attend and participate fully in the party’s convention.

He stated this in a statement through his media office in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, saying that there was no reason his group would not be attending the convention.

He said, “We are looking forward to the Saturday convention. We will be at the convention and after that, we shall see how things unfold.”

Baraje explained that as a member of the convention committee that he attended meetings of the committee once, but had not been able to attend subsequent meetings.

On the news that President Muhammadu Buhari said he was never going to meet with his group, Baraje, who had been leading other members of the group in their consultations with APC leadership, said that although he was not privy to such statement, that neither him as the leader of nPDP nor the group, would officially react to the comment for now.

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According to him, when it is compulsory for the Presidency to invite them for discussion or talk, they will be waiting for such invitation.

He also responded on the allegations that names of some people not in the fold of the mainstream APC in Kwara State were included as part of members of the convention committee, saying that he was not aware of such development.

 

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