The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustee (BoT) Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said that members and other stakeholders are not ready to form any new political party, dispelling speculations of an understanding for a merger with a new political party ahead of 2019 general elections.
Jibrin said yesterday that the attention of the PDP BoT has been drawn to series of publications alleging that PDP has adopted a particular political party just newly registered as its fall back position.
The clarification came on the heels of the crisis that engulfed the party and split it into two factions of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi’s Caretaker Committee and that of Senator Modu Sherrif.
In a statement, Jibrin said that “ I
want to make it very clear that PDP has never formed any alternative party, if
it has to agree on something like that all organs and forums of the party, the
BoT, National caucus, PDP governors forum, National Assembly caucus , states
PDP chairmen forum, former ministers forum, former governors forum, various
youth forums, elders forum nationwide, women’s forums and others will be fully
consulted before such a very sensitive decision is taken.”
Expressing hope that the Judiciary
would resolve the dispute within the PDP leadership, he explained that “ for
now I want to assure our teeming supporters that PDP accepts the judicial
processes going on at the Supreme Court and that we are very confident that the
court shall freely and independently take fair decision which will be historic
in Nigeria’s democracy.”
Meanwhile, the Senator representing
Cross River Central Senatorial District in Senate, John Owan Enoh yesterday
defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), thus further reducing the number of PDP caucus in the upper
legislative chamber.
With Enoh’s defection, the number of
PDP senators has been reduced to 41 while that of the APC has jumped to 67,
including the membership of a Labour Party senator, Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta
Central) who also cross-carpeted to the ruling party in March this year.
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