PDP in Adamawa skeptical over outcome of merger.
There were celebrations in Adamawa by Governor Murtala Nyako’s supporters as the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, tagged, New PDP, finally merged with the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Meanwhile, the state leadership of the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP has said that it is not yet “uhuru.”
The APC’s National Vice Chairman, North Eastern zone, Umar Duhu, disclosed that the two parties agreed to work together in order to rescue the fledgling democracy of the nation.
“Today, I’m one of the happiest chieftains of the APC in Nigeria, and in Adamawa State in particular. What I started in my capacity as the National Vice Chairman (North East) of APC by giving out kolanuts to the Governor of Adamawa State, the prominent and the senior leader of the nPDP – inviting him and his colleagues into the APC, which was collaborated by the national leadersip of APC – has paid off,” he declared.
He affirmed that as the nPDP came into the APC, there would be no senior or junior.
“All the courtesy and preferences accorded to our initial 11 APC governors would be extended to the (G7 governors). Also, National Assembly members, whether joining or those with us, would be accorded the same preferences while they seek re-election,” he promised.
However in a swift reaction, the Bamanga Tukur faction of the PDP in the state, has asked Nigerians to tarry a while, to see what the new APC merger would bring to the table.
The factional secretary of the party, A.T Shehu, said that it was not yet uhuru, as according to him, ‘’they (the nPDP) are just drowning men in a sinking ship.”
He said that for a long time, Mr. Nyako and the other G7 governors had not been in the “real PDP”.
“They were just pretending; so with this action everybody knows where they belong. A wolf cannot just continue to hide under a goat’s skin to perpetrate evils; definitely, God will expose them, and this is what we are today witnessing. So, we in the PDP, we are not rattled,” Mr. Shehu said.
Shortly after the pronouncement of the merger, some Nyako supporters took to the streets of Yola to celebrate, chanting, “Death to PDP.”
“With this development, the PDP has been buried. We are tired of the impunity,” said an ardent supporter of the governor, James Marcus.
“Under these circumstances, President 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,’’ he said.
A woman leader in the state, Hajiya Larai, concurred that with the merger, APC had gained an upper political hand over PDP.
“It’s glaring that the new re-alignment has pushed the PDP to the unfamiliar territory of being a weaker and weakened political force across the country,” she observed.
She said help was on the way for Nigeria, as the opposition moved to form a broad based coalition, which, she believed, would send “some characters” out of power and put into gear “the Nigerian project.”
She advised the new front leaders in the struggle under the banner of APC to watch out for “fifth columnists” who may be in the party to destroy it.
Prior to the merger, several meetings were held between the APC leaders and the leaders of the new PDP. The APC visited each of the seven new PDP governors in their states to convince them to join its fold. However, some of the governors, like Babangida Aliyu of Niger State had said that they would not leave the PDP unless they were chased out.
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