Akpabio: PDP sets up c’ttee to woo opposition govs

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has set up a tactical committee saddled with the responsibility of wooing the opposition governors into the its fold. Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom said this while fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja on Monday. He dismissed the insinuation that some PDP governors were making moves to defect to other parties, saying it was rather the PDP governors who were poised to bring their colleagues into the PDP. “And we as PDP governors are poised to bring in our other colleagues (governors) from other parties to join us, that is what we are trying to do now. “We have set up a tactical committee to also reach out to the ‘opposition’ so that we can also attract people because we want to be more than what we are,” he said. “When we started, we were more than 30 governors so there was no need for PDP Governors’ Forum. Now that we have been reduced to 23, there is now need for us to come together and ask ourselves why,” he said. (NAN)