nPDP: ‘APC’ll pay for ignoring us’

The defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) political bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it was not aware of any decision by the Presidency to ignore their complaints.
There were speculations in the media yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari might have decided to call the bluff of members of the nPDP and to ignore their threat to leave the APC.
Chairman of the nPDP group, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, had earlier said that the group “can no longer continue negotiations in a fouled and toxic atmosphere and environment of intimidation and threat to life.” Since the breakdown in talks between nPDP and the Presidency, there had been speculations that both sides had taken hard line positions and that peace talks were no longer possible.
However, an outspoken member of the aggrieved nPDP group and the out-going Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Timi Frank, said the group had been officially communicated by the Presidency regarding the talks.
Frank, who was reacting to media report on the alleged hard line position by President Buhari, said: “There is nothing official, nobody has reached out to us.
We don’t know the presidency position and there was no briefing on it.” On whether the group have been meeting to consider fresh options, Frank said: “We have been meeting to take decisions and in the not too long a time our decision will be made known to Nigerians.
We have been strategising and “I can assure you that we are going to take positions that would benefit Nigerians and take them out the present darkness that we are in. I can confidently tell you that we have the numbers that can shake the party if they want us to do so.” On the forthcoming convention, Frank said the nPDP group “will attend the event” since they were still members of the party.
“At the end of the day, if we are not comfortable with the process then we will meet to take a position.”

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