APC Governors Hail New PDP Faction…Offer Them Partnership

Opposition political parties likely to benefit from the disintegration in the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have continued to hail the split into factions of the leadership of the party before the end of its special convention which also marked the 15th year of its establishment in Abuja. Barely 24 hours after the newly registered Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM hailed the confusion that greeted the PDP’s convention in Abuja, 11 governors of the opposition mega party, All Progressives Congress, APC today issued a statement expressing support for the new faction of the PDP.

The APC governors in the statement jointly signed by all of them under the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) said they “welcome the PDP split of August 31, 2013 and the emergence of Abubakar Kawu Baraje led PDP as a necessary and inevitable result of repressive rule of the PDP.” They argue that “Recent events, first with the orchestrated crisis in the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), suspension and expulsion of PDP leaders, including serving Governors without fair hearing and complete demonstration of lack of tolerance and respect for different opinions are signposts of crisis that should unavoidably result in the split of any organisation.”

The release reads in full: “The PGF commend the courage and resilience of the Baraje-led PDP and in particular congratulate all the serving PDP Governors for standing up to be counted among patriotic political leaders of Nigeria. It must no doubt be a conscious decision that must have been borne out of commitment to make all the sacrifices needed to rescue our dear nation from the current reign of terror and bad governance.

“As serving governors too, we are ready to support, work with our colleagues in partnership and solidarity with the goal of facilitating accelerated human development by embracing policies and programs to improve quality of life of all Nigerian citizens, eradicate poverty and create jobs in the country. We are under no illusion that our reality as a nation today calls for both intra and inter party networking.

“We are therefore ready to transform our relationship with all serving governors irrespective of our partisan differences in order to move our dear country, Nigeria, forward. Nigeria has outlived all dictatorships in the past and will definitely outlive any present or latent, manifest or potential dictatorship. Congratulations!”