APC Leadership, nPDP Meet Today

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and members of the new Peoples Democratic Party, (nPDP) will today, Monday, meet in Abuja to address the grievances raised by the nPDP.

Recall that the nPDP had in a letter to the APC, demanded an urgent meeting with its leadership and President Muhammadu Buhari within seven days.

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The letter dated April 27, 2018 and signed by Abubakar Kawu Baraje, the former national chairman of nPDP, and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, its former national secretary, listed several grievances of the party.

They complained that despite the role they played in bringing APC to power in 2015, they had been neglected in the scheme of things by the administration.

In a statement to newsmen, Baraje said the APC, on the seventh day of the expiration period indicated in the letter, slated a meeting with the group for 2 p.m. today.

The meeting was however impossible as nPDP members were representing the interests of other stakeholders nationwide, the meeting was rescheduled for today.

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Baraje, however, stated that nPDP members would not immediately depart the APC if the party failed to meet their demands.

“The last time we met here (Baraje’s residence) in 2016, I told you that the way the party was going, we were on the road to perdition.

“If you look at the letter we wrote, we never said we gave an ultimatum to leave the party, but we advised them; we hinted the party because of the ongoing primaries of the party.

“Now that the party invited us, exactly on the seventh day after being in receipt the letter, they wanted us to meet that same day. But because we were speaking for several leaders across the country, we told them we couldn’t meet that same day. So, now they have scheduled a meeting for tomorrow (Monday) anytime from 2 p.m,” he said.

“We have travelled a long way with the APC and now we are seeing things get worse in the APC than they were in the PDP. If we are leaders worth the name we say we are, we should be bold enough to speak up about it,” he said.

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