APC Must Die So That PDP Can Rise – Fayose
The governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors’ Forum, Ayodele Fayose has said that for the PDP to rise again, the All Progressive Congress, APC must die.
He made the statement at the meeting of the National Expanded Caucus of the party in Abuja Monday night.
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The meeting is the first gathering of members of the party since the Supreme Court declared Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi as the National Chairman of the party.
Present at the meeting were former President Goodluck Jonathan; Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Makarfi , Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu; a former President of the Senate, David Mark; and governors of Rivers, Taraba, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Gombe states,.
Fayose, in his remark said: “The APC must die so that the PDP can rise. Old change will give way for a new change. Now the coast is clear, all the party leaders should go home and work for the PDP.
“If this party must win, get Nigerians’ confidence restored, our leaders must go home to boost the party.
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“If this party must return to power, we need to get the confidence of Nigerians.”
Also speaking, Makarfi commended the members of the party for “being unyielding in their faith on the judicial system.”
He said members of other political parties were already planning to defect to the PDP, but said he would not mention their names and where they would be coming from.
“This hall will not contain us by the time they start to come back to the PDP. I will not tell you who they are or where they are,” he said.
