Nigeria’s
main opposition party, PDP, said on Wednesday that it is in talks with seven
other political parties for potential alliance ahead of the 2019 general
elections.
Jerry Gana, a former
Minister of Information and member of Ahmed Makarfi-led faction,
said during the presentation of a report by the PDP’s strategy committee in
Abuja, that the party had been in talks with only the political parties that
have strong democratic tenets.
Mr. Gana, who
expressed optimism that the APC will be defeated in 2019, said preliminary
outreach by the PDP “yielded positive responses from seven people-focused and
social democratic parties.”
Mr. Gana said the
alliance will not culminate in a mega party as being rumoured in some quarters
but will instead be “a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP.”
The PDP dominated
Nigerian government at the centre since 1998 until it was voted out in 2015
general elections. A protracted leadership crisis had left the
party rudderless for several months.
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