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PDP, 38 other parties sign coalition pact ahead of 2019 poll

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By Baron Ike

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leaders, old and new seem to be taking advantage of the crisis within the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to consolidate under the coalition of political parties.

It was a gathering of political heavyweights drawn from different political parties as their leaders converged at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja on Monday to sign a memorandum of Understanding on coalition on how to defeat the ruling APC ahead of the 2019 general election.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former President of the Senate, David Mark, former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP and a member of the Board of Trustee, Olabode George, Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, controversial senator, Dino Melayer  and other dignitaries were at the Coalition of United Political Parties gathering in Abuja.

The event, which took place at the Yar’Adua Center  on Monday, was announced by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary, Senator Umaru Ibrahim Tsauri.

The crucial meeting saw in attendance members of former PDP ministers forum, all state chairmen, and a host of others.

The PDP and other political parties have been meeting secretly on how best to wrest power the APC-controlled government headed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Some of the political parties  that signed the MoU include the PDP, ADC, SDP, Reformed All Progressives Congress (r-APC), PPA, NCP, AD, MMM, GPN, RNP, NUP, PPP, RPN, UPN, KOWA, NIM, CAC, AA, GDPN among others.

The opposition parties are in agreement that Buhari has failed and that the APC should be shoved aside next year.

The coalition gathering is the first major public outing of the masterminds of the idea on how to sack APC in 2019.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is one man working underground to provide the groups support having earlier advised Buhari not to seek reelection based on poor performance.

APC Suffering From Pre-Defeat Trauma, says PDP
As the meeting was going on, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said APC is on the throes of death and that its panic-stricken leadership has resorted to fabrications and cheap blackmail against those leaving their sinking ship in droves.
The PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan issued a statement on Monday in that respect.
He wrote: “Already suffering from pre-defeat trauma ahead of the 2019 elections, the now shattered APC has become intensely nervous and chaotic over the soaring popularity of the PDP as well as the surge of Nigerians, across board, into our fold as a re-positioned and re-branded party.
“We are therefore not surprised that the APC, out of frustration, has recourse to sponsoring of spurious publications filled with deceptions, fabrications and lies against the PDP.
“The APC is particularly unsettled by the huge successes recorded by the Liyel Imoke-led PDP Contact and Integration Committee, in seamlessly galvanizing alliances among stakeholders across other parties, including those returning from the overtly dysfunctional and derelict APC.
“The APC is further disconcerted by the spirit of accommodation, agreement and oneness of purpose that pervade the alliances among old, new and returning members of the PDP in our key structure across all the states of the federation, particularly in Sokoto, Kogi, Kwara and Kano states, where all new and retuning members have been accorded very warm reception.
“We know that the APC will stop at nothing in its sneaky efforts to cause confusion among our members, including suggesting that there are disagreements where none exists.
“What the APC, in its depravity and desperation, has failed to note is that the PDP had, since its repositioning, made adequate arrangements, ahead of time, to accommodate all interests and alignments in this collective quest to rescue our nation from the misrule of President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2019.
“The APC should come to terms with the fact that as the name of our great party connotes, the rebranded and repositioned PDP remains a party of all Nigerians and will continue to provide equal opportunity for all Nigerians to freely aspire, even for the highest position in the land, irrespective of creed, tribe or even previous party affiliations.
“We advice the APC leaders to further accept the fact that their party is now beleaguered with a demystified and unpopular presidential candidate and an unelected National Chairman who is overburdened by corruption allegations and as such can no longer produce a President that will be acceptable to majority of Nigerians.
“We therefore charge Nigerians to continue in their rally with the PDP as the epicenter of a new broad-based political engagement to rescue the nation and return her to the path of peace, unity and economic prosperity, come 2019.”

 

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