2019: PDP Heads For Total Collapse As Chieftains Dump Party With Supporters

The major opposition Party in Nigeria(PDP) may be heading for a total collapse if immediate mechanisms are not set to unit forces within the Party soonest, as leaders of repute in the Party are dumping it one after the other.

A former Minister for Education and former national chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Tunde Adeniran has decamped to another party.

Prof. Adeniran said he has decided to join Social Democratic Party, SDP alongside Prof. Jerry Gana, whom they were both members of the Board of Trustees of the PDP before the defection.

While Adeniran was a chairmanship candidate in the December 9 national convention of the PDP, Gana was one of his staunch supporters.

Speaking over the defection in Abuja on Saturday, Adeniran said he decided to leave the PDP because of impunity and imposition of candidates.

Adeniran said, “I have left the PDP for the SDP with my supporters. I left because there is no internal democracy in the PDP. It may interest you to know that Prof. Jerry Gana has also left the PDP.”

Asked if Gana would fly the presidential ticket of the SDP in 2019 as being speculated, Adeniran said, “Whoever will be the presidential candidate will emerge from our convention.”

On whether he could realise his chairmanship ambition in his new party, Adeniran said he was not nursing such an ambition.

In his reaction, the National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, described the defection of Adeniran as painful.

He said Adeniran remained one the founding fathers of the party, adding that he had expected him to join hands with him and other leaders of the party to rebuild it in order to be able to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Reliable Information from Sources however has it that more leaders of the Party are preparing to leave in no distant time, if nothing changes.