[size=14pt]Nigeria: Alkali Denies Cracks in PDP Over Yar'Adua[/size]
Muideen Olaniyi
17 January 2010

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday dismissed media reports of a sharp division within the leadership of the party over the absence of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'adua.

Yar'adua has been away for more than 50 days now, a situation that has fuelled speculations of frantic moves to search for a new Vice President by at least 6 power blocs within the PDP.

A report even suggested that former President Olusegun Obasanjo left Thursday's Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting which he presided over in a sad mood because attempt to rally support for the emergence of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as 'Acting President' hit a brick wall.

But PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali, denied the reports accusing desperate opposition politicians of trying to use the media to sow a seed of discord within their ranks.

Alkali said: "We view stories purporting a division within the party on the basis of any succession arguments as unnecessary distractions and also as attempts to break the cohesion that currently prevails in the party."

Alkali said the party would remain united and focused in praying for the quick recovery of the President.

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They have no choice but to crack. We are sick and tired of Northern political greed.