Late Tuesday morning, at about 11:46, the National Chairman of the
New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje,
formally announced the merger of the party with the All Progressives
Congress (APC). The merger was contained in a communiqué which
Alhaji Baraje read to journalists at the end of a meeting between the
leadership of New PDP and that of the APC held at the Kano
Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.
The communiqué signed by Bisi Akande the APC National Chairman
and Kawu Abubakar Baraje the National Chairman of NPDP reads, “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”
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 !”
Below are the obvious consequences of this new 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.
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.
Long live NPDP!
Long live Nigeria!!!
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
National Publicity Secretary
for: New PDP
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