PDP Governors & APC Strike Power-Sharing Deal

The merger between the APC and the five of the G-7 governors is still on course and with the way the PDP in Abuja is talking tough, the remaining two governors may soon join the train, it was gathered that the new Peoples Democratic Party said on Wednesday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the All Progressives Congress that will prevent any clash of interest in future.

According to an insider in the party: “We have agreed that the New PDP governors would control the APC structures in their states. For Kano and Sokoto, we will reconcile the governors and their predecessors.”

In a report by Punch, both sides agreed that the five PDP governors who defected to the APC on Tuesday are now in charge of APC in their respective states and would control the structures of APC.

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

It was also gathered that the governors and leaders of the New PDP would play active roles in the emergence of the APC presidential candidate in 2015 and work together to defeat the PDP in the elections.

With this development, I hear that the governor of Kano State is now a major contender in the 2015 ticket.