The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a turn for the
worse, weekend, with the decision of seven of the party’s 23
governors to float a new party, the Voice of the People, VOP.
The application for registration by the new party, it was learnt at
the weekend, has been filed with the Independent National
Electoral Commission, which is processing it. A source in INEC
contacted on the development, yesterday, said he was unable to
confirm the veracity or the stage of the application.
The party, it was learnt, is receiving the patronage of several
chieftains of the PDP.
The seven governors alleged to be behind the new party include all
five Northern governors that have engaged in a series of
consultation with eminent statesmen, including former heads of
state. The five governors are Murtala Nyako of Adamawa ; Rabiu
Kwankwanso of Kano; Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto; Sule Lamido of
Jigawa and Babangida Aliyu of Niger State. The five governors are
being joined in the rebellion against the PDP by Governor
Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
Another governor is also sympathetic to the proposed VOP, but his
identity could not be confirmed as at weekend. The inclinations of
Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal towards the new party have also
not been confirmed though it was learnt that he has been
approached.
The decision of the governors to move out of the PDP came ahead
of the special national convention of the PDP this weekend.
Governor Amaechi who has been suspended has not been invited
to the convention but the decision of the other six to pull out of
the PDP could come as a blow to the PDP given the electoral weight
of the states involved.
With Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa states out of control of the PDP and
the Southwest totally out of control of the ruling party, the PDP
would be reduced to playing second fiddle in the Northwest and
Southwest regions whose total voters’ population is more than
40% of the national voting population.
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