Should they decide to dump their party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will welcome into its fold the seven embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The APC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, declared yesterday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

“They are welcome if that is their final decision. The development will strengthen our party towards 2015 election,” he said.

Mohammed affirmed the readiness of the party to effect a positive change in democratic system to uplift the country.

According to him, APC is built on the principles of democracy and popular participation.

The national publicity secretary maintained that the party would begin the registration of its members nationwide next month.

Mohammed told NAN that the party was intensifying efforts through robust logistics to ensure successful membership registration.

He added that the nationwide membership registration would strengthen the party and enable it to contest all future elections.

According to him, the party had resolved to maintain inclusive party machinery where all parties that merged into the APC, would fully participate in all its activities and membership registration due to begin next month.

He said he was optimistic that Nigeria would be better if everybody could truly contribute his quota.

Also yesterday, the APC told PDP chair Bamanga Tukur that only Nigerians can decide whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan will rule beyond 2015, saying his statement that the President will rule till 2019 is nothing but an empty boast aimed at ingratiating himself to the President.

In a statement in Abuja by Alhaji Mohammed, the party also asked the PDP Chairman to back up his statement, that it is time for youths to take over the reins of power, by first stepping down from his post to pave the way for the younger generation.

It reminded Tukur that one of his predecessors once boasted, in another euphoric moment, that the PDP will rule for 60 years, only for him to leave office in disgrace shortly thereafter.

“There is nothing on ground to justify Tukur’s empty boast beyond the PDP’s rigging machine, which is again being oiled in readiness for 2015, going by the barefaced vote stealing and unbridled brigandage that the party exhibited in the recent bye election in Delta Central Senatorial District.

“The PDP which, has presided over the affairs of Nigeria for the past 14 years, has only succeeded in pushing more people into poverty, with 112 million people now living below the poverty line and millions of children out of school. No sector has been spared the effects of the cluelessness and visionlessness of the PDP and its leaders. What then is the empirical basis for the PDP to continue to rule.

“It is interesting that the chairman said the future belongs to the youths and that the era of Gerontocracy is gone. The last time we checked, a 78-year-old man does not exactly belong to the generation of youths, even if he continues to hold away at the top echelon of the ruling party. The sincerity of that statement is therefore in doubt.

“As for the PDP chairman’s admonition to the youth to start preparing to take over the mantle of leadership, the question to ask is whether or not the undergraduates in the nation’s public universities, who have been marooned at home for over four months now because the PDP-led Federal Government repudiated the agreement it signed with ASUU, are not part of the leaders of tomorrow?

“If Tukur believes they are, he should urgently prevail on the government sired by his party to meet its obligation to ASUU and end the strike by the university teachers. Then we will know that he is serious about his postulation. Until then, we say talk is cheap, because all that we can see now is that the PDP-led Federal Government is doing everything in its power to mortgage the future of tomorrow’s leaders,” it said.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-ready-receive-g-7-pdp-governors/

I dey Laugh oooo

It seems PDP is taking over APC .....
Those dumping PDP are not doing so because of Ideological differences but simply because of dissatisfaction with Jonathan ..........


They would only use APC to defeat GEJ and dump APC too only to go back to their Puke .... !!!


APC Beware ..... If the G-7 are coming on Board, the terms MUST be clear !!!

Nigerians..... Which way .....

That does not automatically change the G7 governors to saints.

Good

This APC na waya.
So so noise!

i dey laugh, dump wetin, make dem try am, apc go implode pass pdp. lets see how shekaru and kwankaso will be in the same party, lets see how turaki and his enemy lamido will be in the same party, lets see how kwara ahmed will coexist with all his enemies in apc, lets see how wamakko will go to apc when his rivals from cpc are in the same party. abeg let them join apc, wats happening in ogun between osoba and amosun will be a child play compared to what will happen here.

@neddu666....hv u forgot that in politics, there is no permanent enemy nd fwends....let them come...dis will hv d effect of strenghten APC....

gameboy727: That does not automatically change the G7 governors to saints.

Bros, wetin dey worry you sef?

See, once you change from the PDP to the APC,whoolaa! you don turn to a great saint.

Seems you have not understood the meaning of oppsoition:

Once anyone is in the "opposition", he is great.

My people perish for lack of knowledge,
if only Chris Uba and his brother Andy can join APC,
if only Stella Odua can just join APC,
if only Orji Kalu can join APC,
if only, if only, if only...


if only

it will make the G7 saint because going back will be disgrace

APC & PDP are only out there for their own selfish gains and not to help the poor masses like they claim to. APC's manifesto is to loot as much as they can from the capital projects they execute while that of PDP is just to loot and nothing else than that.

noblezone:

Bros, wetin dey worry you sef?

See, once you change from the PDP to the APC,whoolaa! you don turn to a great saint.

Seems you have not understood the meaning of oppsoition:

Once anyone is in the "opposition", he is great.

My people perish for lack of knowledge,
if only Chris Uba and his brother Andy can join APC,
if only Stella Odua can just join APC,
if only Orji Kalu can join APC,
if only, if only, if only...


if only

lol

asha 80: lol

Why are you laughing at my "brilliant" idea?
If any of this people can just join APC, then you hear how they are "good people" who unfortunately happens to be with the wrong party.

From fry pan to hell fire. Tinubu will not tolerate them as Jonathan and tukur have done. Cause good number of them have presidential ambitions which they can never realize under Tinubu

Professor Peter: From fry pan to hell fire. Tinubu will not tolerate them as Jonathan and tukur have done. Cause good number of them have presidential ambitions which they can never realize under Tinubu

Is it only that one?
The presidential ambition is a small thing compared to their arrogance!

Saiii... Hypocrisy of d highest order! Is d G7 not PDP'S product, so why would d SAINTS PARTY(APC) now welcomes looters, corupption, election riggers, murderers(ALL PDP'S VICES ACCORDING 2 APC) into their party? Jesus rightly calld them- HYPOCRITES!

Splinz: Saiii... Hypocrisy of d highest order! Is d G7 not PDP'S product, so why would d SAINTS PARTY(APC) now welcomes looters, corupption, election riggers, murderers(ALL PDP'S VICES ACCORDING 2 APC) into their party? Jesus rightly calls them- HYPOCRITES!

Because once you join APC, you become a member of the "opposition"!
And who does not know that the "opposition" is the "messiah" of Nigeria and all members of the "opposition" are "clean"!

Even if you are "dirty", just say APC, then you shall be "clean".
And if you are corrupt, once you join APC, you become "incorruptible".