The leadership of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has said that it has commenced talks with some politicians
and the leadership of the Labour Party (LP), Social Democratic Party
(SDP) and five other political parties in the country on modalities for
aligning forces to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress (APC)
in the 2019 general election.
The meeting with friendly political
parties and associations, which was at the instance of the PDP, was
billed to take place yesterday evening in Abuja.
The Chairman of the PDP Strategy Review
and Inter-party Affairs Committee and former Minister of Information,
Prof. Jerry Gana who gave some insight on the merger talks yesterday,
when he submitted the report of the committee, said it had nothing to do
with the “rumoured mega party”.
“We are pleased to report that our
initial contacts have yielded positive responses from seven
people-focused and social democratic parties. In fact, later this
evening, key leaders and selected delegates from the seven parties will
be meeting on the invitation of the PDP.
“This has nothing to do with the
rumoured mega party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of
the PDP. Our desire is to have all genuine democrats and friends of the
party to flow together and provide a fresh and trustworthy leadership to promote and
ensure a people-friendly process of national development.” he said.
“We are pleased to report that our
initial contacts have yielded positive responses from seven
people-focused and social democratic parties. In fact, later this
evening, key leaders and selected delegates from the seven parties will
be meeting on the invitation of the PDP.
“This has nothing to do with the
rumoured mega party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of
the PDP. Our desire is to have all genuine democrats and friends of the
party to flow
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