APC & New PDP Merger will Defeat Jonathan, Asari Dokubo is a Child - Aminu Tambuwal

 

The speaker of the House of Reps, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has confirmed that it would indeed be a very daunting task for President Goodluck Jonatha under the PDP to win the 2015 election should the party fail to reconcile with the members of the New PDP.

He also caution the likes of Asari Dokubo who are found of threatening Nigerians to either vote for Jonathan or be visited with mayhem, to stop such nonsense as no one is intimidated by such childish talk.

On the chances of the APC and New PDP taking over power, Tambuwal said:

“It is up to the group that is led by Bamanga Tukur to appreciate the implication and the consequence of that action that was taken by the faction that broke away from the party at the mini-convention.

"Tukur must understand what the action of those seven governors will cost the PDP before the 2015 elections... I am afraid, if we allow that particular group, from what we can see, either to go and form another political party since they are working together or go and join the merger and possibly increase the strength of the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC), the PDP being led by Bamanga Tukur will have a very strong formidable force coming up against it in 2015.”

“The challenge for the Tukur-led PDP is to go and find every means to pacify and bring the seven governors and their people back into the main PDP fold because if you lose just one state, it can be very costly not to talk of seven states, and of those seven, there is Kano that is having a very strong voting population in Nigeria; there is Rivers, and there is also Niger State. They are not states like Nassarawa, Ebonyi or Bayelsa. These seven states are the ones that have significant voting strength and I believe that PDP needs to be more careful in handling this very delicate situation.”

On why Tukur is bent on having his way in the PDP despite obvious negative signals, Tambuwal added:

“First, he started with Adamawa, his home state, and it is clear that it was because he is having his own son in mind to succeed the present governor of the state. Same is happening in some of the states where some of his allies are having interests in who becomes the next governors.”

Tambuwal warned that it is either Tukur/Jonathan PDP embrace everybody or be ready for defeat in 2015.