The newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it may form a strategic alliance with the seven aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the run up to the 2015 ballot because they are too important to be ignored.
The open invitation by APC was released right after the newly appointed youth leader of the splinter PDP, Comrade Timi Frank, had warned that PDP would lose the 2015 general election should the 'new PDP's' mission to rescue the party fall flat.
Speaking on the phone with Thisday on Tuesday, the APC interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, said the party would not hesitate to receive the seven PDP governors.
“We will welcome them with open arms and like I said before, we feel that these seven governors are too important to our political dynamics to be ignored,” he stated, adding that APC considers a partnership with the governors as very strategic.
"In fact, some of them have been former federal ministers, permanent secretaries and they are not the kind of people you can ignore," he noted.
United by frustration with 'old PDP'
When asked if the agendas of the two parties of the prospective alliance were synchronized, Muhammed said:
“To the extent that they are not satisfied with the PDP because of the lack of proper organisation by the PDP, it tallies with our own.“They are very vital resources, they are very strategic for us and if we are able to strike a bargain and agree on a position with them, of course it will help the polity, not just APC but the whole of Nigeria.”
In turn, Frank, stated that the leaders of the 'new PDP' were determined to rescue the party and therefor were not yet considering leaving it or joining another party. He reminded that the objective of the 'new' PDP is to take the party back to its glorious days.
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