Nigeria: PDP Reaches Out to Estranged Governors

6 December 2013

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has embarked on moves to get five of its governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) back under its umbrella.

THISDAY gathered yesterday that the party has reopened discussion with them with the aim of resolving the issues that pushed them to join the opposition party. Besides, the presidency has joined forces with the party to engage the five governors who defected from the PDP in November so that they could return to the ruling party. The defected governors are: Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa).

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