PDP senators plan mass defection to APC

                                                   
Just three days after 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers in the House of Representatives dumped the the party for All Progressives Congress (APC), many senators elected on the platform of the party  at the upper legislative chamber are planning mass defection to the opposition party, Saturday Independent has gathered.


The move according to impeachable sources in the Senate would be finalised by January.
The senators we learnt are buying time pending when discussions will be concluded with the APC caucus leaders at the National Assembly.

Already, according to our sources, the yet to defect senators have been assured of automatic ticket to fly APC flag at the next election as one of the baits to lure them.

We gathered that some of the senators that had indicated interest to dump PDP surprisingly are from some of the states where their governors appeared to be backing the leadership of PDP under Bamagar Tukur and President Goodluck Jonathan’s yet to be declared second term ambition.
Some of the PDP senators (name withheld) confirmed the development.

They also revealed that the Senate President, David Mark, apparently disturbed that he may be consumed by the move, has been sending emissaries to top PDP leaders to appease the senators to stay back in the party.

A senator in one of the South South states confirmed that some of them will be joining APC next year.
“Yes we are leaving PDP. My state is now APC state and I have to move with the tide,” the senator who pleaded for anonymity said.

Former Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Senator Adegbenga Kaka, confirmed the plan saying some of the aggrieved PDP senators have made up their mind to team up with APC by January.

According to him: “It is no longer rumour, we are expecting the PDP senators to join our party and those who are bold among them will soon defect to APC by January. The plan will soon be concretised.

“They are talking to us but I can’t confirm to you their numbers yet. They are many. That does not mean that when they join us that we are going to push for change of leadership at the senate. Whichever way, the signals are clear that PDP is going into extinction and Nigerians at all levels are tired of the party. Of course the process is being perfected for early next year,” Kaka said.

In a separate interview, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of APC, Lai Mohammed, said his party was eager to receive the PDP senators as soon as possible.

“Our doors are open. We will accommodate them (PDP senators). They will find our party worthy to join. We have no cause to worry about the PDP antics of trying to use court to intimidate those senators not to join us. That will fail. However, we are leaving the discussion to our caucus leaders at the National Assembly to handle. They will advise us better on how to go about it.

“You asked if we are not bothered that it might be an attempt to plant moles to destabilize our party? All I can tell you is that we are always many steps ahead of PDP in terms of reasoning and planning.”