Gen Muhammadu Buhari
Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, leading opposition parties and second term Governors under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are working from different angles to kill the second term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan.
It was gathered that while major opposition parties are working towards possible merger, in the first quarter of next year, the PDP Governors are equally working to end Jonathan’s dream.
The opposition parties we learnt are currently working tirelessly in order to oust the ruling party from the nation’s number one seat.
The parties include Gen Muhammadu Buhari ‘s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP)
According to the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, there was a strong arrangement by the opposition to get its acts right with the major aim of unseating the PDP in 2015.
The party chieftain disclosed that the opposition parties had agreed to fill the leadership gap created by the PDP administration in the last 13 years.
He said: “Yes, all the opposition parties will coalesce into a big party. We shall all lose our identities and probably our jobs after assuming the identity of the new party.
“The need to salvage the nation from the precipitous rulership of the PDP is the cause of the initiative. Hopefully, this will emerge early next year.
“Indeed, we have crossed the rubicon and our minds are set on the merger.”
A chieftain of the All Nigeria Peoples Party and former Yobe State Governor, Senator Abba Bukar Ibrahim, had boasted that the major opposition parties were set to float a new party in March next year.
Ibrahim, who is a member of the ANPP’s Contact Committee for the merger talks, said: “Before March 2013, we are all going to reach an accord on the merger. From all indications, the parties are looking forward to forming a totally new party where all opposition parties would come together as one entity.
“The plan appears to be more popular than any other arrangement and I believe there is sufficient time to register a new party,” the lawmaker said.
According to an insider source who craved anonymity said:
“It would be unwise for any of the governors to leave office with Jonathan still in power given what is turning out to be his ruthlessness. If the governors leave him behind, every one of them that has offended him would find himself in prison within weeks of Jonathan getting a second term.”
The source added that if the plan of the Governors to stop the president hits the rocks, they would then use the platform of the mergeR to kill his ambition.
The National Publicity Secretary of the ANPP, Mr. Emmanuel Eneukwu, said he was happy with the merger talks .
Eneukwu noted that the merger talks had been shaking the PDP camp because of “its monumental failure” to leave up to expectation.
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