- The exit of the party’s bigwigs is contained in a communiqué issued shortly after a meeting of Concerned Leaders of the PDP held in Abuja on Tuesday.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, ex-Senate President David Mark, and other heavyweights of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have resigned their party membership.
The exit of the party’s bigwigs is contained in a communiqué issued shortly after a meeting of Concerned Leaders of the PDP held in Abuja on Tuesday.
Within Nigeria on Tuesday reported that the top opposition figures held a closed-door meeting to discuss the protracted crisis the main opposition party is embroiled in and the way forward.
Discussion on whether to remain in the party and form a broader alliance or to join the coalition movement also took place.
Former Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi), along with other senior figures, were also present at the meeting.
The concerned leaders bemoaned the parlous state of the nation, noting that the All Progressives Congress, APC, government has brought nothing but hardship, pain and destruction to Nigerians.
They also disclosed that officials elected on the platform of the PDP are being threatened and blackmailed to join the APC.
They lamented that the APC, government, which “came into being on the false and evil propaganda, to save Nigeria from PDP, is now a disaster to our nation and therefore must be voted out of power.”
According to them, “all indices of development that support the comfort and quality of lives of the citizens have collapsed, and life is now hell in Nigeria.”
The opposition leaders expressed regret that PDP, “which is organic with the discipline, capacity, and history to lead and save Nigeria, is now a shadow of its old self,” stressing that “the heatwave unleashed by the APC Federal Government through threats, blackmail and patronage has forced elected officers in government to abandon the PDP.”
They called on all well-meaning PDP “members and other patriotic Nigerians to join the coalition.”