The National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and members of the new PDP (nPDP) will met later today in Abuja to find common ground with its members who belong to the nPDP.
The meeting which will take place around 2:00pm is the second since the nPDP issued an ultimatum demanded a meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari within seven days.
Former Acting chairman of the nPDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje disclosed in Ilorin on Sunday during an interaction session with journalists at his GRA residence on the state of the nation.
Baraje who lamented the high rate of internal conflicts within the ruling APC, which he noted has culminated in parallel state congresses in about ’21 states’ stressed that the decision of the group was in the overall interest of the party contrary to insinuations in some quarters.
Baraje who insisted that the group will continue to seek ways from different quarters on how to better the lot of the party towards the next election said nPDP is desirous to have Buhari as President.
While pointing out that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) never had such internal wrangling as is evident in the APC, Baraje warned that if the APC fails to heed the request of the nPDP, then it’s forthcoming national convention might become an avenue to wash it’s dirty linens in the public.
According to him, what members of the nPDP are witnessing in the APC are worse than what they experienced in the PDP.
He said the nPDP is made up of men and women who cannot be pushed aside, and referred to the resignation of the group’s secretary and former governor of Osun state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as signal to what may happen if members are not able to convince their followers about the need to remain in the APC.
He however said nPDP members would not immediately pull out of the APC if the party fails to meet their demands, but would still go ahead and meet with several leaders across the country to stop what he termed as impunity within the party as it did during the last administration.
“The last time we met here( Baraje’s house) in 2016 I told you that the way the party was going on we were on the road to perdition.
“If you look at the letter we wrote we never said we gave ultimatum but that we advised them; we hinted the party because of the ongoing primaries of the party. Now the party has invited us, exactly on the seventh day of the letter and they wanted us to meet that same day but because we were speaking for several leaders across the country we told them we couldn’t meet that same day so now they have scheduled a meeting for tomorrow (Monday) anytime from 2pm“
He said the opposition of the group led by Senator Abdullahi Adamu to the petition by the nPDP is meaningless adding that the nPDP is such a large group that it cannot but have some black legs.
“We have travelled a long way with the APC and now we are seeing things worse in APC than in PDP. If we are leaders worth the name we should be bold enough to speak about it”, he submitted.
