In a desperate move to boost its rank, the All Progressives Congress has opened the door for the Seven Rebel PDP Governors(gG7 to join the party.
This will be a major decider if the Governors eventually agrees as the PDP will face even more stiffer opposition for majority control at national level. The APC, promised to handover the complete control of APC structures in the states of those G7 Governors to them.
The offer to the rebel governors was formally made by Umar Duhu, National Vice-Chairman of the APC, North-East, during an unprecedented Sallah visit by top party officials to Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, one of the rebel governors.
Sources present at the meeting in Yola reports that the APC officials told governor Nyako that it was the policy of the APC to offer any governor that defects to the party the complete structure of the new opposition party.
Meanwhile, acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the party would not be averse to any big fish, including any or all of the seven rebel governors joining the new opposition party.
The offer of the party structures which was formally tabled to the governors during the Sallah visit, it was learnt, was symbolized by the offer of kola to the governor on Wednesday.
“It is our party policy that any governor that joins us from the opposition would be given the party structure in his state,” the APC officials were quoted as telling Nyako.
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