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Reliable source according to Nigerian Tribune has revealed that, a former president is plotting a deal to coordinate an Arewa-wide movement to pressure elected PDP officials to defect to the APC. That agenda, which is already being implemented, was said to be responsible for the recent defection of PDP lawmakers in Zamfara and Kaduna states to the APC.
Similar pressure is reportedly being put on elected officials in Katsina, Jigawa and Niger states. Even while governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Aliyu Babangida (Niger) have refused to quit the PDP, it was gathered that their loyalists in the respective state Houses of Assembly are under pressure from the Arewa lobby group.
Also the opposition is pushing to reduce PDP to a regional party while the APC will take its place as the national party.
“You remember how the PDP emerged from the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) to become a pan –Nigeria party. The same forces that turned APP to a regional party overnight in 1998 are coordinating a reenactment of that feat with the PDP as the victim now. Very soon, it will be clear to all that the PDP has become a party of the South South and the South East just as was the case with the APP in 1998 when its root was mainly in the North West and the North East. You just wait and see,” the source, who is close to a powerful traditional ruler in the north, told Saturday Tribune.
The Arewa agenda is, however, reported to be facing stiff opposition in the Middle Belt region where a combination of religious factor and strong anti- Hausa fulani sentiment is helping the ruling party.
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