APC Rebels Talking To Our Members – PDP Spokesman

Disgruntled members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have launched a move to create a third political force in the country by wooing some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, the opposition party spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said on Monday.

Speaking in an interview, he said the PDP was yet to take a decision on the zoning of the 2023 presidential contest and hence. His assertion was in response to claims that Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State was set for defection based on the issue.

GWG had reported moves by Umahi to defect on account of what is alleged as the refusal of the PDP to zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the Southeast.

Speaking in an interview on Arise TV, Ologbondinyan said:

“We are aware in the Peoples Democratic Party that there are those who are losing out in APC and they are contemplating a third force just as they did in 2014 and as such, they are looking at coming to the PDP and break the party by taking members of the PDP to create a new political party.

“The PDP is a holistic political party and we are not going to allow distractions. The leadership of the PDP under Prince Uche Secondus is steadying the party for the purpose for which Nigerians are aligning with us come 2023,” he stated.

On Umahi and the agitation for zoning the presidential ticket to the Southeast, he said:

“Discussions have not reached that stage at all. The concerns raised by Governor Umahi as it affects the South-East, the party believes are genuine concerns. And when the time comes and all the variables are considered, and all the issues are taken into consideration, the party will take its decision.

“PDP is not a party that can be stampeded. We are not a party that takes decision on the impulse of one or two individuals; we are a structured political party – we have our various organs and decisions as important as the zoning of the number one office is not a decision that can be taken at a sitting; it is a decision that must be taken round all the interests and the organs of our party. We haven’t even started the discussion, that’s the honest truth.

“But concerns are being raised and the party is also studying all the concerns. I believe all these will come into play when the party wants to make a decision but as we speak, we have not reached that level.”

He, however, said that the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC would meet on Thursday to address issues of national concern to the party.

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