Trouble looms for APC as nPDP laments non-recognition, issues seven-day ultimatum
There are more trouble imminent in the already distressed All Progressives Congress [APC], as former leaders of the PDP [new Peoples Democratic Party] who defected, joined hands with other parties in the merger that led to the formation of APC in 2013 have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the national chairman of the ruling party, demanding an urgent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Recall that the then-new PDP alongside Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) were the parties that were merged together to form APC.
In a letter, Newsclick signed by the Former national chairman of PDP Abubakar Kawu Baraje, and its former national secretary Olagunsoye Oyinlola, which was presented to John Odigie-Oyegun and copied to President Buhari and Osinbajo on Wednesday afternoon, the group listed several grievances and demanded an emergency meeting.
Some of the grievance highlighted by the nPDP include the following: