PDP NWC meets in Abuja over defections

PDP acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum | File Image

 All is not well with the Nigeria’s opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as its National Working Committee (NWC) converge for an emergency meeting at the party’s Abuja national secretariat.

The meeting, currently being held behind closed doors on Tuesday, comes amid the gale of defections sweeping through the ranks and strongholds of the opposition party as well as the internal crisis that has plagued the PDP.

Last week, PDP’s former vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, and the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

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They collapsed the opposition party’s structure in Delta State as the Deputy Governor, Monday Onyeme, state commissioners, local government chairmen, and the state’s grassroots machinery all moved en bloc to the APC after a close-door meeting in Asaba.

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