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2023 elections: I will work for PDP though I lost primary elections — Plateau PDP chieftain
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Ropshik who came second in last month’s primary election stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos.
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According to him, he will not jump ship just because he did not get the party ticket.
“I am out to support PDP that is why I have been attending its reconciliation meetings.
“I did not contest for glamour, I came out because I wanted to work for PDP.
“As a businessman, I don’t go into ventures that are not profitable. I have looked and weighed Plateau and I know that PDP has a chance in 2023,” he stated.
He commended the leadership of PDP for initiating reconciliation meetings, which he described as timely.
Ropshik said that the meetings were the right steps that anybody should first take in any reconciliation move.
He further said that some aspirants were aggrieved but the truth remained that only one person would emerge from such a contest.
“I am one of the persons that people think I should go to court but of course, immediately after the election, I said that I will not go to court.
“You know I came out to win the governorship election, I came second for some reasons.
“I know myself, I know my capacity and I would have won, but unfortunately, it didn’t go my way.
“It doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. So I am one of the first persons that congratulated the person that won.
“I told myself that I needed to move forward. And as a party if we must win, reconciliation is what we must do more at this stage,” he added.
Ropshik promised that he would personally work hard his capacity to assuage some aggrived persons so that the party could move forward.
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Cracks in APC as 20 senators plan to defect to PDP, NNPP others
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No fewer than 20 senators are set to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other political parties.
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The ruling party, which had earlier lost over 10 senators to the opposition parties is troubled by the wave of defection as more lawmakers that lost their return tickets to the National Assembly during the party primaries are set to leave the party.
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, Senator Dauda Haliru Jika representing Bauchi Central, announced his defection to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
Worried by the wave of defection in the party, the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu, met with the APC senators behind closed doors at the National Assembly complex, Abuja yesterday.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Adamu admitted that the APC is worried about the development.
“The meeting with the senators was most fruitful. The issue of defection is an unfortunate development when it happens but this is a season where there are all sorts of behaviour in the political space and ours is not an exception.
“In every election year, this kind of thing gives cause for stakeholders to sneeze and Nigeria is not an exception so is the APC, not an exception. I don’t care about what is happening in other parties, my focus is on the APC. But we all know that the occurrence is not only happening in the APC, it’s happening across other political parties too. And because we are the ruling party, our problems are exaggerated before the public.
“There is no responsible leader that would not be worried when he loses one member not to talk of two. At the moment we are faced with the stark reality of our problems. I have committed my colleagues at the National Assembly to face the problem squarely and see the problem as solvable. We are in politics, I don’t know what would happen tomorrow, and nobody does,” he said.
According to Punch, a source in the National Assembly disclosed that not lesser than 20 senators are planning to leave the APC within the next week.
“The party chairman came to have a meeting with the APC senators because he said that they learnt through intelligence that not lesser than 20 more senators were planning to defect to other parties within the next one week.
“The chairman asked each of the aggrieved senators to lay bare their grievances which we all did one after the other. Having heard our problems, the chairman instructed that we put them into writing,” the source said.
The lawmaker said during Adamu’s meeting with them, the party chairman asked the senators to put their complaints into writing and promised to address all issues raised.
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Bala Mohammed meets Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt [Photos]
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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has held a closed-door meeting with his Rivers State counterpart, Gov. Nyesom Wike.
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The National Vice Chairman of the PDP, South-South Dan Orbih was also part of the meeting.
The meeting with Bala Mohammed came after pictures of the Presidential candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi meeting with Wike in his country home emerged online.
Obi says his visit to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State was for the duo to discuss vital national issues.
“Earlier today, I visited Port Harcourt, to confer with H.E. @GovWike on vital issues of national interest,” Obi’s tweet, shared alongside photos of him and the Rivers leader, read.
Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party says he visited Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to discuss vital issues of national interest with him.
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Obi’s visit to Wike in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, sparked a conversation on social media as many believe the meeting was about the forthcoming 2023 elections.
But hours after the meeting, the former governor Anambra took to Twitter to explain the reason he held a meeting with Wike behind closed doors.
“Earlier today, I visited Port Harcourt, to confer with H.E. @GovWike on vital issues of national interest,” Obi tweeted.
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