The
Democratic Peoples’ Party (DPP) is set join the newly formed merger of
opposition political parties in the country; the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
DPP national chairman, Major Gen.
Bashir Salisu Magashi told newsman after the party’s National Executive
Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja that DPP has also resolved to set up a
committee to hold talks with other political parties disposed to merger.
DPP Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman,
Gen. Jeremiah Useni, former gubernatorial candidate; Sir Great Ogboru
and acting national secretary of the party, Mallam Abdullahi Danazumi
were at the meeting.
Magashi who said the merger process
has become imperative prayed that it will succeed to enable the
opposition dismantle “a government that is not fair to the people of
this country.”
In the communique issued after the
meeting, the DPP resolved that “In view of the current political
development in the country, the NEC hereby resolved that the DPP should
go into the merger. A committee be set up to talk with the other parties
disposed to merger with a view to negotiating for the best interest of
DPP. The committee is to report back within 21 days to the NEC through
the national chairman who shall there upon summon a NEC meeting.
He added that DPP has been in the
forefront of having such an alliance in the past. “If you are following
the history of the political development of parties you should put us in
the pioneer champions of this merger issue. We are 100 percent in
support of anything that will bring relief to this nation, anything that
will help this nation to develop. As a political party with elected
representatives with legislative arms of government, at various levels
it is natural that we are interested in the political re-alignment
taking place,” he stated.
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