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| PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh |
Despite its dwindling political fortunes
in the north-west zone, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party
boasted on Tuesday that it would be impossible for the All Progressive
Congress to win the 2015 presidency.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisah Metu, stated this in Kaduna on Tuesday.
Metu was at the meeting convened by the
Vice President Namadi Sambo, to deliberate on the lingering crisis in
the party in the zone.
He said, “APC is not a party that will
take over Nigeria in 2015 and even beyond because the party is built
along ethnic, religious lines.
“It will be impossible for them to win any elections. PDP remains the party for Nigeria, a truly national party”
It was learnt that Sambo had practically
relocated to Kaduna following the gale of defections from the PDP to
the APC and had met stakeholders of the party from Sokoto, Kano and
Zamfara states at the late Gen. Hassan Katsina House, Kawo, Kaduna on
Tuesday.
Sources at the meeting told our
correspondent that the stakeholders reviewed the challenges and
prospects of the ruling party in the Northern states, such as Kano,
Sokoto and Zamfara that had been taken over by the APC.
It was gathered that the tension-soaked
meeting, which had in attendance former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, son of late Head of State, Mohammed
Abacha, and other prominent party chiefs from Kano, Sokoto and Zamfara
states, deliberated extensively on how to win back those states that had
gone to the opposition in the 2015 elections.
Also, at the end of the meeting at
3.30pm, Ambassador Aminu Wali, told journalists that former governor of
Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau would soon defect to the ruling
party from the APC.
He said the party in the state had
contacted Shekarau and that soon, he and his teeming supporters in the
state would join the PDP.
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