As a sign of the seriousness of this planned alliance, the PDP along with the 44 other political parties will today hold a crucial meeting at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja to fine-tune modalities for the alliance and the best approach to achieving their set objectives.
The meeting, according to a source within the leadership of the PDP, is to be attended by frontline leaders of the 44 political parties and associations and is aimed at setting ground rules for the talks which is expected to last for the next few weeks, to work out details of the alliance.
The source, who spoke in confidence, told The Daily Times that, “The aim of the alliance is to forge a common ground and a formidable force to take power from the ruling APC and form the next government.
“I also wish to inform you that the alliance will be broad based to attract the best brains across the country to deliver it from its present bad leadership”.
Describing the present APC-led government as a failure, the source wondered why a government will be in place and herdsmen run riot, killing people from across various regions of the country, with the government claiming that the country is under a foreign invasion, yet unwilling to curtail the herdsmen and protect the people.
While acknowledging that the Boko Haram group was also inflicting serious damage on the country during the PDP rule, the PDP top leader noted however, that while his party was in power, the Boko Haram insurgency was curtailed to a region, adding that the insurgents’ capacity to do much harm was greatly reduced before the party lost power.
He said the aim of the parties in the alliance talk is to save Nigeria from collapse and rescue it from the dangerous negative drift that it is currently facing and position it again to the part of prosperity with adequate security.
Many top politicians from across the various political divide and regions are already jostling for the nations’ number one seat with many of them promising to lead the country towards a new way of doing things.
Among the frontline aspirants for the presidential race are former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo, former Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makrfi, former Kano State governor and a serving Senator, Rabiu Kwakwanso, Senator Datti Baba Ahmed, former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido.
Others are Chairman of the PDP former Ministers’ Forum of Nigeria and a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, Fela Durotoye, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, Omoyele Sowore, Ahmed Buhari, Dr. Thomas-Wilson Ikubese, Dr. ShinaTagbenro Byron of Kowa Party, Elishama Ideh among others.
With the recent crack that appeared within the fold of the APC, with the angst expressed by members of the nPDP, who have threatened to break away from the APC because according to them they are marginalised within the APC and the birth of the Reformed APC, led by Buba Galadima and the seeming hard stance of the chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, that the capacity of the nPDP and rAPC to harm the party was negligible, it is believed that a well coordinated opposition against the APC is imminent in 2019.
At a recent gathering in Lagos, one of the new political movements,
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