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| Baraje and Tukur |
“A
meeting of the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the new PDP
met this morning at the residence of the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso, in Abuja and after exhaustive deliberations the two parties agreed
to merge in order to rescue our fledgling democracy and the nation”
With
this development, the G7 Governors of New PDP, namely, Babangida Aliyu (Niger),
Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala
Nyako (Adamawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), are now
members of the APC. The merger thus shoots up the number of APC State Governors
to 18 while PDP’s shrinks to 16, with All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
and Labour Party having one governor each. A similar permutation exists in the
National Assembly where we now have the majority with PDP and its allies in
minority.
The
simple meaning of this is that APC is now the majority party in the country
while PDP has become a minority party. In the circumstances, President Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan must now start writing his handover notes because his ambition
to maouevre the party structures so as to get a third term in office in 2015
has suddenly collapsed.
What
a sudden change of fortune! What a sad day for the PDP, a party which we
laboured to build, which was viciously taken away from us but which, out of our
great love for it, we did everything humanly possible to save but were
frustrated by the unpatriotic elements that have usurped the leadership of the
party.
Nigerians could recall
that several meetings had been held between the APC leaders and the leaders of
the New PDP. The APC had visited each of our seven New PDP governors in
their states to convince them to join its fold but all these notwithstanding while
the PDP Leadership on their own side were plotting on daily basis on how to
frustrate us out of the party we suffered to nurture.
The fact remains that we did
all within our powers to reconcile with PDP to no avail and sadly our dear
President allowed the hawks within the Presidency and PDP Leadership to
convince him to abort our last Sunday’s meeting that would have brought a last
peace to our party which the PDP
leadership under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur frustrated, so we have no other option
than to formally announce the death and burial of PDP. Day and night we cried
out, begging whoever loved PDP to join us to rescue the party from imminent
doom but we were conveniently ignored and abused. Just last night, we issued
the last in a series of passionate appeals to PDP Elders to take urgent steps
to save the troubled party in the face of their unbelievable silence in the
face of the chain of developments instigated by factional National Chairman,
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, which has put the party at the edge of the precipice.
Now,
we have reached the stage that we can only say: “PDP, your sinking ship has
been abandoned to you! You brought this misfortune upon yourself, now you must
bear it alone!”
As
for us, we are happy to belong to the APC, where our value is appreciated,
where we are made to feel truly wanted, and where we can now join forces with
like minds in our struggle to liberate Nigeria from PDP’s misrule, which is
soon to end.
Among those at the Tuesday’s
historical merger meeting were APC leader and former Lagos State governor, Bola
Tinubu; APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande; Kano State Governor, Rabiu
Kwankwaso: former Kwara governor and serving senator, Bukola Saraki; former
Nasarawa governor and serving senator, Abdullahi Adamu; former Bayelsa
governor, Timipre Sylva; and Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.
Others were former Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Aminu Masari; Rivers State Governor, Rotimi
Amaechi; National Secretary of the PDP, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former Abia
governor, Ogbonnaya Onu; former PDP vice chairman, Sam Jaja; Kwara State
Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed; and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu.
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