Ahead of 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is poised to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Party (APC).
The major opposition party is reportedly working towards wooing some APC key members spread across 15 key states.
The Nation reports that the states are: Kano, Kaduna, Osun, Imo, Kogi, Bauchi, Kwara, Jigawa, Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Sokoto and Ekiti.
According to sources, the PDP is looking forward to conquering all the 15 states and that this informed the reconciliation committee headed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu set up by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Nation reports that the PDP is setting its eyes on 22 APC senator and 50 members of the House of Reps to switch camp.
Top on the list are Bukola Saraki, Senate President and Yakubu Dogara, House of Representatives Speaker.
Sources claimed the decision by the National Assembly to re-order the sequence of the 2019 elections were signals as to how things may play out.
A source said the PDP and APC “are locked in a cold war of engaging in covert realignment and reconciliatory talks. “The PDP is desperate to decimate APC and give the ruling party a good fight in the affected 15 fluid states.
“The presidency and some APC leaders have realized that the party machinery, as currently constituted, cannot respond to what is branded as ‘PDP menace’. “This is why President Muhammadu Buhari empanelled Asiwaju Tinubu and others to find remedial solution.
While APC has internal crises in some of its strategic and huge votes’ states, PDP has time constraint and funding as its major problems. It is only Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State that is heavily funding the party.”
(Nation)
