Mass defection to hit PDP again

December 22, 2013 by John Ameh, Success Nwogu and Leke Baiyewu

Barring any last-minute change in the unfolding schemes on the political scene, there is imminent mass defection of Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers in the House of Representatives to the opposition All Progressives Congress, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

Intensive discussions are ongoing between members of the APC and members of the PDP in the House, it was learnt on Friday.

The effort by the opposition party to win over PDP lawmakers is in pursuit of APC’s determination to increase its numerical strength in the legislative chamber to 212.

The feat, if achieved, will put the party in a position to take over the leadership of the House.

Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH showed that about 40 more PDP lawmakers are considering the APC.

With the defection of 37 members of the ruling party to the APC last week, the opposition party currently has 172 members in the House, while the PDP has 171.

The forty lawmakers expected to join the APC in January include five members of the PDP from Adamawa State.

Adamawa State Governor, Mr. Murtala Nyako, was one of the five former PDP governors, who defected to the APC last month.

Curiously, PDP lawmakers from the state did not defect to the APC on Tuesday, when the 37 from Sokoto, Kano, Rivers and Bauchi states moved to the APC on the floor of the House.

“The reason they did not move on Tuesday was part of the strategy of the APC. If they had moved with their colleagues, the number would have been 42, instead of 37. Such a large number moving at the same time could have caused tension on the floor.

“It was part of the strategy that the defection should be done gradually. For the case of Adamawa, it is a done deal; they will move”, a source confided in SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday.

In addition to the five lawmakers from Adamawa State, it was gathered that 35 others from states whose governors did not move to the APC, were on standby.

“These members are with the PDP on the floor, but their hearts are with the APC”, the source who pleaded anonymity added.

One of our correspondents gathered that the major reason for the planned defection was to enable the lawmakers actualise their 2015 ambitions.

When contacted, the Minority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, confirmed the findings, saying , “More members are billed to join us in January.”

Although, he declined to mention any figure, he stated that there was “no longer any doubt that things will not remain the same by the end of January.”

Five aggrieved PDP governors of the rebellious G-7, had on November 26, 2013, announced their decision to merge with the APC.

The five governors were Muritala Nyako (Adamawa), Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

The governors, at the meeting they had with the leadership of the APC in Abuja, said their decision was aimed at rescuing the country.

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I see impeachment plot getting thick in 2014 against GEJ.

The year to watch out for is actually 2014 as that will be when all the fireworks will go up.

Seriously the so called technocrats and half baked politicians that made up the presidency will ruin GEJ. Nigerian House of Representative is a prototype of Nigerian society so if he is losing it there am afraid

Decamping from PDP to APC is the same as changing NEPA to PHCN.

I love Government... Vewi intwesting


POLITRICKINg @it peak


I trust mhi in dis situation

::hw gej fumbled= unification of all d tribe should hv bn is theme

2)Dat january 1 fuel subsidy, men dat fcvking killed his second term ambition

3)Corruption and co.. He is not ruthless as obj

4)Strike ,strike,strike

5) Can still win= no favourite in politrick until d result

isi4: Decamping from PDP to APC is the same as changing NEPA to PHCN.

Sharap.. Go back to Romance section!

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See where Abati, Tukur, Asari et al. carry GEJ reach!

Impeachment on speed dial! 2014!!

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The game plan is now changing!!!!!
Season 2 will be so so much interesting,
Please my bro n sis seat bck n relax.
Ensure you grab d pop corn

A good political strategist should have seen all these coming. Neither GEJ nor his advisers ever thought it could get this bad. SMH for GEJ

I see Pdp turning to regional party in 2014 and many years to come!

According to NL e-rodents and roaches....PDP dey kampe.

Baba Suwe ni awon boys NL PDP yi sha!!

Kewt: A good political strategist should have seen all these coming. Neither GEJ nor his advisers ever thought it could get this bad. SMH for GEJ

Indeed....GEJ and his advisers are naïveté personified.

Even a novice in politics would have seen this coming....the day those governors developed the temerity to walk out on GEJ at the mini convention signaled and mark the watershed of beginning of trouble.

But a wise President and his advisers would have known that brute power...brawn and raw presidential power is meaningless without tactical use.

They are only reacting to events and not pro active.

It's apparent that he has VERY BAD ADVISERS as aides...

Why am I feeling so lucky

Kewt: A good political strategist should have seen all these coming. Neither GEJ nor his advisers ever thought it could get this bad. SMH for GEJ

They actually saw it coming, they only want those corrupt reps, senators, Governors (as stated by Gej adherents) to defect. U will see after Gej has completely sanitized Pdp, Pdp will now be a party of new bloods/technocrats: like Bode george, Tony anenih, Ibrahim mantu, Farouk lawan, Stella oduah, Vincent ogbulafor, Evans bipi, Adebayo akala, Alameisigha, Dimeji bankole, Theodor orji, Mohamed abacha et al.....

Femolacaster:
They actually saw it coming, they only want those corrupt reps, senators, Governors (as stated by Gej adherents) to defect. U will see after Gej has completely sanitized Pdp, Pdp will now be a party of new bloods/technocrats: like Bode george, Tony anenih, Ibrahim mantu, Farouk lawan, Stella oduah, Adebayo akala, Alameisigha, Dimeji bankole, Theodor orji, Mohamed abacha et al.....

You've never hear of the famous Akpu logic ?

ilugunboy:

You've never hear of the famous Akpu logic ?

I have heard of Amala grammar.

c0llynz02: I have heard of Amala grammar.

Good for you!

Maybe your thinking won't be warped as your fellow Akpu eaters..

ilugunboy:

Good for you!

Maybe your thinking won't be warped as your fellow Akpu eaters..

My grammar is not as dodgy as that of Amala and red oil munchers.

c0llynz02: My grammar is not as dodgy as that of Amala and red oil munchers.

Says an Akpu logician

I am loving this drama....

ilugunboy:

Says an Akpu logician

Heard by an Amala grammarian.

c0llynz02:
Heard by an Amala grammarian.

Oya...that is enough distraction for the day...face the topic.

Ihedioha and Enwerenmadu jobs are up for grabs ..whatcha say?

ilugunboy:

Oya...that is enough distraction for the day...face the topic.

Ihedioha and Enwerenmadu jobs are up for grabs ..whatcha say?

I say wake up from your filthy dream!

ilugunboy:

Indeed....GEJ and his advisers are naïveté personified.

Even a novice in politics would have seen this coming....the day those governors developed the temerity to walk out GEJ at the mini convention signaled and mark the watershed of beginning of trouble.

But a wise President and his advisers would have known that brute power...brawn and raw presidential power is meaningless without tactical use.

They are only reacting to events and not pro active.

It's apparent that he has VERY BAD ADVISERS as aides...

I am sad that people like you with all your fine grammar still fancy politicians who have no interest of the masses at heart. No wonder professors are bowing to semi-illiterates for crumbs from the table. Why should you be happy with criminals who brought us to this pitiable condition forming another mega party that will finally nail the coffin of Nigeria?. What do you think those in APC have to offer that we have not seen/known?

At this stage, I wish to advise you and other Nigerians who believe in party and not performance to think twice. Nigeria is looking for a leader, not a party.

Well while I prefer the opposition starting on a clean sheet, Jonathan prove to be poorly versed in critical thinking how does a president retain a party chairman with limited electoral value and loose govs who have wider value in election , clearly one whom the gods wants to punish they make mad.

Political prostitute

Femolacaster:
They actually saw it coming, they only want those corrupt reps, senators, Governors (as stated by Gej adherents) to defect. U will see after Gej has completely sanitized Pdp, Pdp will now be a party of new bloods/technocrats: like Bode george, Tony anenih, Ibrahim mantu, Farouk lawan, Stella oduah, Adebayo akala, Alameisigha, Dimeji bankole, Theodor orji, Mohamed abacha et al.....

You forgot to add Evans Bipi and Nyesome Wike.

Some of the best new blood technocrats to emerge in recent times.

ba7man: You forgot to add Evans Bipi and Nyesome Wike.

Some of the best new blood technocrats to emerge in recent times.

Add Al Mustspha into the mix...

The technocrats are populating PDP...while the looters and devils are leaving..

SMH

Tony Nwoye became the PDP candidate in the Anambra election few days to the election and despite being relatively unknown, he still came second in that election. Many people were shocked at how that happened.

So mass defection or no mass defection, the scores will settled at the 2015 general elections. As some people are leaving the PDP, others will join the party. All these development will only make the election more competitive and expensive at the detriment of governance.

vedaxcool: Well while I prefer the opposition starting on a clean sheet, Jonathan prove to be poorly versed in critical thinking how does a president retain a party chairman with limited electoral value and loose govs who have wider value in election , clearly one whom the gods wants to punish they make mad.

A politically savvy President would have done everything in his powers to have Rotimi Ameachi ( the most vociferous supporter of the President prior to the debacle) in his camp. I lost all political respect for him the day he allowed the wife to embarrass the governor.

He made it worse by his failure to manage his crisis with OBJ properly and allowing the hawks...political hanger on and opportunists in the Presidency to throw cheap punch at the old fox.

Political re-alignment is becoming a perennial phenomena in Nigeria, especially when Politicians are jobless and career-less, politics is their source air, water and food. Without re-alignments, they could become armed robbers.

Look at today's politicians apart from the President and few others. Did they actually have a real career apart from the military-backgrounded mafioso parading themselves as democrats ?

While the masses are suffering, the politicians who called themselves progressives, and now dining with the ones they called "corrupt". It is sad for anyone to still believe a wolf can become a sheep, but I know these are all wolves in sheep's clothing.

I stand for GEJ and what remains of the rejuvenated, reinvigorated, renewed and pollutant-free PDP.

So help me Cosmic & Infinite Oneness.

Sincere 9gerian: Tony Nwoye became the PDP candidate in the Anambra election few days to the election and despite being relatively unknown, he still came second in that election. Many people were shocked at how that happened.

So mass defection or no mass defection, the scores will settled at the 2015 general elections. As some people are leaving the PDP, others will join the party. All these development will only make the election more competitive and expensive at the detriment of governance.

Rigging alert