PDP Governors May Defect To APC

[Shola Sholaz]

STRONG indications have emerged that some governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, plan to take over the yet-to-be registered All Progressive Congress, APC.
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The governors are said to be planning to use the crises rocking the PDP to move to the APC, just as the leadership of the coalition of opposition political parties was expecting 23 governors as its members.
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It was gathered that the planned defection would be actualised once the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, registers APC as a political party ahead of the 2015 elections, just as this would constitute a new challenge for the APC against the backdrop that a new power base. in the new party will emerge.
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A source at the APC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, however, expressed  the fear that should  the plan scale  through, the defecting governors would outnumber the founding governors of the APC leading to their overbearing influence in the running of the party's  affairs.