Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are reportedly planning to form a new party should embattled factional chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, continue with his “distractions” after the forthcoming national convention scheduled for Port Harcourt on August 17.
According to THISDY, a member of PDP’s Board of Trustee, BoT said the party’s leaders had resolved that should all the peace moves fail, they would all leave the party with all the governors and national assembly members to form a new party with a new name and “leave the rump to sherrif, to continue with his charade.”
The source also revealed that PDP is ready to strategically reposition itself and prove a formidable opposition ahead of the 2019 polls.
He said: “Sheriff is President Buhari’s in law (his son is married to one of Buhari’s daughers). The thinking among the party leaders is that the All Progressives Congress is using him to continue this distraction of the PDP.
“The APC has found in Sheriff a willing tool to destabilise the opposition party. We know their game plan. But we will not allow them to kill the opposition; more so now that Nigerians are being pummeled by the APC government.
“The APC is struggling to face the reality that it must pack out of Aso Rock by 2019. A weakened PDP is in the interest of President Buhari and the APC and Sheriff is there to ensure they achieve their objective.”
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