The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party are engaged in a battle of wits over the membership status of the seven aggrieved PDP governors.

While the APC has intensified its lobby to win over the governors, the PDP has remained confident that the party’s internal crisis will soon be a thing of the past.

The aggrieved governors are: Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers). Others are: Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Babangida Aliyu (Niger).

The opposition APC has within the last few weeks intensified moves to get the aggrieved governors to dump the PDP and declare for the APC.

Saturday PUNCH gathered in Abuja, on Thursday that a delegation of the party’s leading figures namely: Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the governors of Lagos, Ekiti, Imo and Borno states will visit the Adamawa State at the weekend to follow-up on an earlier invitation extended to Governor Murtala Nyako. The team paid similar visits to the Kano and Jigawa States on Thursday.

Feelers from the party hierarchy indicate that the team is poised to visit the remaining governors in their domains within the next one week.

This, it was learnt, was part of measures aimed at speeding up the process of the governors’ defection into the opposition party. It was also gathered that this is in addition to several informal meetings held with some of the governors at home and abroad.

Before now, the APC has been making surreptitious moves to extract a commitment from the aggrieved governors some of whom have given their consent in principle.

Nyako has been the most vocal about the possible defection of the rebel PDP governors to the opposition APC.

Although a date is yet to be fixed for a formal declaration, it was gathered that close associates of the governor will move into the APC as “an advance party” should talks with President Jonathan break down irrevocably.

The Director of Press to the Adamawa State governor, Malam Ahmed Sajo confirmed the planned visit but could not say if his principal would be making a big announcement.

Sajo also said, the APC leaders have notified the governor that they will pay him a visit on Friday.

He said, “We have said it over and again that the level of injustice which has become the nature of the Tukur-led PDP will leave some of us with no choice but to go into the warm embrace of the opposition.”

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told Saturday PUNCH that the party was willing to welcome not only the governors but any other Nigerian who was willing to join hands to “redeem Nigeria from the clutches of the PDP.”

SOURCE: www.punchng.com/news/pdp-apc-battle-over-rebel-governors/

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Anyhow they want it

This APC should not disappoint me ooh, i chose them because of the failure of pdp and success of Acn, therefore if they welcome the infectious pdp people i wonder how they will replicate the success of ACN in 2015. In short word it's like accepting failure like Alao-akala, oyinlola etc and you expect me to have trust in you. Though i like some of this Pdp governors especialy Rotimi Amaechi without doubt is one of the best governors in Nigeria but accepting the likes of Ahmed fatai of kwara state and Babangida Aliyu of Niger state a bad omen.