{"id":46211,"date":"2016-02-04T13:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=46211"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:11:14","slug":"secondus-metuh-holding-back-defectors-to-pdp-as-apc-others-consider-mass-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/secondus-metuh-holding-back-defectors-to-pdp-as-apc-others-consider-mass-defection\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondus, Metuh, Holding Back Defectors To PDP, As APC, Others Consider Mass Defection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continued hold-on to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party,<br \/>\nPDP, by Acting Chairman, Chief Uche Secondus and National Publicity<br \/>\nSecretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, has prevented aggrieved members of other<br \/>\nparties from joining the PDP, <a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">pointblanknews.com<\/a> can report.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Party officials who do not want to be named told Pointblanknews.com<br \/>\nthat members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, who are currently<br \/>\ndisenchanted with the way and manner the party and Government is being run<br \/>\nare willing to defect to the PDP but are not comfortable with the<br \/>\nSecondus-Metuh leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received enquiries from APC members on the chances of them moving<br \/>\nto PDP\u00a0 but their main concern and challenge is the continuous presence of<br \/>\nSecondus and Metuh,&#8221; the PDP stalwart who does not want to be named told<br \/>\nPointblanknews.com.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;We have also received enquiries from members of other<br \/>\nparty who are willing to team up with the PDP to form a formidable<br \/>\nopposition but they are not comfortable with the way and manner the party<br \/>\nis being run by the Secondus and his men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com gathered that some top members of the APC and some<br \/>\nserving Governors who feared that the Party might disintegrate and cause<br \/>\nthem electoral misfortunes are beginning to consider a defection to the<br \/>\nPDP.<\/p>\n<p>Former nPDP members, a splinter group from the PDP, members of the defunct<br \/>\nAction Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All Nigeria&#8217;s People Party, ANPP and few<br \/>\nothers in APC are currently aggrieved and considering defection.<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirmed that senior members of the APC have severally complained<br \/>\nabout how the party is being run. Some complain how difficult it has<br \/>\nbecome to even have an audience with the President on pressing state and<br \/>\nnational issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have it this bad under other administrations. It is hard to<br \/>\ndiscuss issues with party chieftains because you don&#8217;t know what group<br \/>\nthey belong. The party is so divided now that it is hard to discuss<br \/>\nissues. It is even harder to see the President because you are always told<br \/>\nhe is busy,&#8221; a serving APC Governor who does not want to be named told<br \/>\nPointblanknews.com.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Governor, &#8220;we just hope the PDP can put back their house<br \/>\nin order. If that happens today, you will see the defection. We will move<br \/>\nin high numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was further gathered that mostly miffed by on-goings in the APC are<br \/>\nthose who moved from the PDP and formed the nPDP and former members of the<br \/>\ndefunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Pointblanknews.com that while members of the former nPDP are<br \/>\ncurrently feeling like a stranger in the APC, ACN members who form the<br \/>\nbloc of the APC from the south west feel the APC have been hijacked by<br \/>\nmembers of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at the composition of the inner caucus of the Government. It is<br \/>\ndominated by CPC members. Besides the Vice President who came from the<br \/>\nACN, we don&#8217;t have anyone else at the top. Even at that, the Vice<br \/>\nPresident doesn&#8217;t speak Hausa and most of the times, they speak in Hausa<br \/>\nand he doesn&#8217;t understand the language. We are not comfortable at all, a<br \/>\nchieftain of the APC who was in ACN told Pointblanknews.com.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;if sensitive positions are spread amongst the core<br \/>\nparties like ACN, CPC, ANPP and others, we won&#8217;t have to fear but as it<br \/>\nstands, once politics heat up, you will begin to see how divided we are in<br \/>\nAPC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides defecting to PDP, some are considering floating a new party<br \/>\nentirely but the fear is the long time it requires to nurture it ahead of<br \/>\nthe 2019 General elections.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continued hold-on to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by Acting Chairman, Chief Uche Secondus and National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, has prevented aggrieved members of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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