Following the last Wednesday’s judgment at the Supreme Court, which settled the leadership tussle within the People’s Democratic Party PDP the likes of former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Kwakwanso and some others members are set to quit the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and return to their umbrella party.
The move was as result of a meeting held between some bigwigs within the PDP and some of their former colleagues, who are now in the APC some days after the Court rulings
According to sources, the meeting involved some former members of the party known as the new PDP, who defected to the APC in the wake of the 2015 general election
Inside Sources gathered that major actors in the current move had been in series of meetings between some of the defunct new PDP and APC members while waiting for verdict of the apex court for the possibility of new entrants from some of the parties that formed the APC.
A source who spoke under anonymity said “they had been meeting before the ruling, it is certain that some of them will go back. This is the judgment they had been waiting for. It could have been different if the judgment had gone the other way.
Some of them had said openly that they cannot work with Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, but with the victory given to the Makarfi group, you can expect majority of them to go back to their vomit. You need to see how they were dancing as if it was their party that won the court case. It is obvious that their hearts are still with the PDP.
They are just waiting for the right excuse to use and return to the PDP and the Supreme Court had in its judgment affirmed that the PDP leadership led by the party’s caretaker committee’s chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, was the authentic faction of the party”
However, sources within the party last night revealed that the likes former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, might be among those considering a return to the PDP.
But in a different development ,information from quarters of the party has exonerated the former Rivers State Governor from the clandestine moves to jettison the ruling party, saying, except for people like Amaechi, who are serving, and who you don’t expect to quit the cabinet, most new PDP members will go back home where they belong.
