Defection: PDP In Talks With Aggrieved APC Chiefs

The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Iyorcha Ayu is leading defection talks with aggrieved chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC reportedly including three ex-governors, 20 serving senators and 50 members of the House of Representatives

The Nation reports that on the radar of the PDP are former governors Danjuma Goje (Gombe), Adamu Aliero (Kebbi) and Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano).

It was learnt that the National Chairman of PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, is leading the talks.

Twenty senators and 50 APC House of Representatives members are also being targeted by the PDP.

There is anxiety that the figure could rise, after the proposed March 26 convention in Abuja.

Sources said the PDP is capitalising on the protracted crises in the ruling party, including post-congress conflicts, defective state structure and battle of supremacy among gladiators, to target some leaders of APC for defection.

Many of the APC leaders being wooed are defectors from PDP to APC.

The decision of the APC leadership to defer to governors at the state level was said to  have left some APC leaders stranded on their political future in 2023.

A source with insights into the discreet talks, said: “The PDP is undercutting APC in many states with its National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, leading the negotiations.

“The opposition party is capitalising on the crisis in APC, especially the pall of uncertainty on the party’s convention and mindset on presidential and governorship primaries. The high number of court cases involving APC is enormous and scaring.

“Some of the negotiations have almost been crystallized. But many others may blossom, based on the outcome of the APC convention,” the source told The Nation.

The defection talks by the PDP with the aggrieved APC chiefs follows the raging crises in the ruling party in many states of the federation.

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