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PDP commence merger talks with minor parties

Updated Thursday 9 February 2017 10:53
PDP commence merger talks with minor parties
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it is reported, has commenced talks with smaller political parties like Labour Party (LP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and five others for a possible merger. 

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The parties want to join forces to take power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general election.

The chairman of the PDP strategy review and inter-party affairs committee and former minister of information, Professor Jerry Gana shed some light on the merger talks yesterday, February 8.

In his words: “We are pleased to report that our initial contacts have yielded positive responses from seven people-focused and social democratic parties.

“In fact, later this evening, key leaders and selected delegates from the seven parties will be meeting on the invitation of the PDP.

“This has nothing to do with the rumoured mega party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP.

“Our desire is to have all genuine democrats and friends of the party to flow together and provide a fresh and trustworthy leadership to promote and ensure a people-friendly process of national development.”

He explained that one of the key recommendations of the committee was the restoration of the youth and women’s wings of the party.

The committee, Gana added, also recommended the use of direct primaries in the conduct of elections into elective positions

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