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Finally, PDP Divides Into Two Factions

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been divided into two factions with each faction set to hold the party’s national convention separately on Saturday.

One faction, which is loyal to National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, will be holding its convention in Port Harcourt, while the other faction, spear headed by Prof. Jerry Gana, a former Minister of Information will hold its own in Abuja.

The pro-Sheriff group is being supported by the party’s Governors, National Assembly members and a faction of the Board of Trustees (BoT) led by chairman Senator Walid Jibrin.

Others are former party chairmen, Dr. Ahmadu Ali and Prince Vincent Ogbulafor; former Senate President Adolphus Wabara; Chief Tom Ikimi; Chief Bode George and Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun.

The Gana group, christened Concerned PDP Stakeholders, includes a number of former Governors, former Ministers and ex Senators among others and has inaugurated a 56-member committee to conduct its convention and pilot the affairs of the party afterwards.

They include former PDP governors Chief Lucky Igbinedion, Mr. Bonnie Haruna, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema, Mr. Donald Duke, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, Alhaji Mahmood Shinkafi, Alhaji Abdulkadir Kure, Sen, Ahmed Makarfi, Chief Achike Udenwa, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and a former PDP national Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.

Others named in the committee are Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Hajia Inna Ciroma, Amb. Wilberforce Juta, Alhaji Ibrahim Bunu, Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri, Senator Bala Mohammed, Mr. Taminu Turaki, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Mrs. Remi Adiukwu.

Also in the group are Mrs. Josephine Anenih, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, Prof. ABC Nwosu, Sen. Ben Obi, Mr. John Odey, Prof. Sam Oyovbaire, Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa, Alh. Shittu Mohammed Kabiru, Senator Grace Bent, and Senator Anietie Okon.

THEWILL recalls that the PDP lost some of its members to the All Progressive Congress (APC), in the build up to the 2015 elections, which it eventually lost, when a splinter group, NEW PDP was formed.

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