Hmm, 2015 will be interesting! The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a turn for the worse, weekend, with the rumoured decision of 7 of the party’s 23 governors to float a new party, the Voice of the People, VOP. The party, it was learnt, is receiving the patronage of several chieftains of the PDP.
The 7 governors alleged to be behind the new party include Murtala Nyako of Adamawa ; Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano; Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto; Sule Lamido of Jigawa and Babangida Aliyu of Niger State; also, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
The decision of the governors to move out of the PDP came ahead of the special national convention of the PDP this weekend. Governor Amaechi who has been suspended has not been invited to the convention but the decision of the other 6 to pull out of the PDP could come as a blow to the PDP given the electoral weight of the states involved.
With Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa states out of control of the PDP and the Southwest totally out of control of the ruling party, the PDP would be reduced to playing 2nd fiddle in the Northwest and Southwest regions whose total voters’ population is more than 40% of the national voting population.
There were indications that last Friday’s private meeting between Governor Kwankwaso and President Goodluck Jonathan was a last minute bid to stop the governor and his colleagues from the rebellion.
The decision of the governors to float a party instead of teaming up with the All Progressives Congress, APC, it was gathered, flowed from deep suspicions between the governors and some of the promoters of the APC.
Source Link: Amaechi, six other govs float new party
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