The Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State, Barrister Tanko Beji, has hinted that a crisis of irreconcilable difference and scramble for funds among top officials of the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress has forced some to conclude on decamping to the PDP.
The PDP in a press statement signed by Beji on Wednesday in Minna, said already some of the APC chieftains in the state are discussing with the ruling party, adding that the move was aimed at saving what is left of their political future.
He said most members of the APC have no genuine interest in making the party have any meaningful electoral value, adding that there is no hope the party will win next Saturday’s senatorial by-election or any elective position in the 2015 general election.
Beji said those who have made contacts to decamp expressed dismay over the political approach of their party members.
He said most of them are self serving and have lost any iota of political relevance to give the party any political goodwill in the state.
According to him: “We have been contacted by some chieftains of the Niger State APC of plans to decamp to PDP and we are already making arrangements to welcome them to the fold.
“We are indeed happy that some people in the Niger APC have scruples and are ready to leave a party formed by people nursing political vendetta, a party without structure or developmental road map for the state.
“We wait for them with open hands.”
Beji expressed confidence that soon the Niger State APC will crumble like a pack of cards, adding that next Saturday is a make or mar contest for the opposition.
He said most of the party members are dissatisfied with the level of preparation.
He therefore called on the electorate to be guided, adding that the APC cannot organize itself and has failed to manage corruption even at party level.
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