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JUST IN: Obasanjo, Saraki, Kwankwaso, Atiku, Other Top APC Politicians To Join PDP, Ahead Of 2019 Elections

JUST IN: Obasanjo, Saraki, Kwankwaso, Atiku, Other Top APC Politicians To Join PDP, Ahead Of 2019 Elections

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Emerging report, indicates that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, are contemplating joining the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of 2019.

The National Chairman of the party, Ahmed Makarfi, dropped this hint while inaugurating three party Committees namely: Convention, Disciplinary, and Reconciliation.

On the other hand, Atiku and Saraki, alongside five PDP Governors namely: Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano); Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Makarfi charged the Reconciliation Committee, to extend their assignment to the founding members of the party, noting that it should not be restricted to pre-2015 alone.

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The party Chairman told the Committee that they should reach out to the founding fathers of the party, under the aegis of a Group of 34 members, and ensure that they bring back members who held high positions.

He also added that the Committee should reach out to “former high ranking government officials, who came into office under the aegis of the PDP.

“This includes Presidents, Vices, Governors, and former Senate Presidents, Speakers of House of Representatives, and all other former top ranking members in the party.

“Everybody that was in PDP at one time or the other, should be reconciled with.

“It is not limited to pre-2015”, Makarfi added.

The National Chairman, who further stated that the Committee could also reconcile with Politicians who were never members of the PDP, however, stressed that “it must not be based on any conditionality.”

He noted that all party members who weathered the storm will not be abandoned, even as he said: “We cannot foreclose opportunity for those who stayed behind through the turbulent period of the party.”

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