The
National Vice Chairman North East of the newly registered All Progressive
Congress, (APC) Alhaji Umar Duhu has confirmed that 23 PDP Governors are
on their way to join APC.
He
said the party has gone into high level discussion with the 23 Governors
who are dissatisfied with the leadership style of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Duhu
said following the frustrations expressed by 5 PDP Governors the
President call them to a meeting where they told him point blank that they are
in talks with an alternative political platform because of the fact that they
have lost confidence in the way President Goodluck Jonathan is steering the
ship of the Nation which is responsible for the drift we are seeing in Nigeria.
“The aggrieved Governors have told President Goodluck Jonathan point
blank that they are rooting for an
alternative
political platform through which they can continue their political pursuits
since it is becoming crystal clear by the day that they will not get a fair
deal in the PDP”.
He said
with the current development, the victory of the Party, has become a fait
accompli come 2015 as people were fed up with the PDP whom in the past 14 years
only promote a reign of impunity and anarchy in the country. “The victory of
the PDP is a forgone issue as both its
members
who are treated badly and the masses are fed up with the reign of impunity it
has wrought on the polity which is responsible for the sorry state that the
country has found itself into since the advent of our democracy 14 years ago”.
Duhu
disclosed that over 300,000 members of the PDP in Adamawa State have joined the
ANPP and all of them will be accommodated into the fold of the newly registered
party without any form of discrimination which is aimed at entrenching
confidence within the party fold. “I can tell you that we have received so many
decampees from the PDP fold into ANPP and we shall soon join the APC in block.
The interesting thing is that we are not placing any condition on anybody who
decided to be with us”.
He said
unlike other political parties whose structures stops at the ward level; APC is
going further into establishing structures at the polling units which will
encourage massive participation of the local people into politics so as to
carry everybody along in the democratization process. “We are going to ensure
the entrenchment of our structures as far as the polling units which will
ensure massive participation of our people at the grass root in other to make
them genuine stakeholders of our democratization process.
“With
the development, the issue of zero votes at the polling units will be forgone
because you can’t have party executives at the polling unit and still record
zero votes, the approach will also checkmate the rigging machine of the PDP at
those levels”, he said.
He
debunked insinuations by Mr. Daniel Richard which says that the party is
slanted in favor of identified sentiments saying that Richard is a spent force
in the party as he has never made his intention to contest for any part
position in ANPP but only to promote primordial sentiments.
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