Fear Grips PDP Over Its Governors’ Move To Join Tinubu In APC

The PDP has begun desperate moves to prevent governors elected on its platform as well as its members from carrying out their threat to defect to the newly formed All Progressives Congress, APC.

This follows indications that no fewer than 12 PDP governors as well as many of the party’s members in the national and state assemblies and its 36 state chapters were being wooed by Bola Tinubu and other notable APC chieftains ahead of 2015.

Some of the governors had told PDP leaders last week that they would leave the party in protest at the disdain which President Goodluck Jonathan and the party leadership had shown for them.

To save the umbrella party from imminent collapse, its leadership is said to be moving to stop the mass defection, as it has embarked on a secret reconciliation.

Confirming their fears, PDP Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, asked: “So, you expect our party to go to sleep when others are planning ahead? That is not possible.”