The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been warned by Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that the ruling party is prepared to seize control of River state.
Since the restoration of democracy in 1999, the PDP has been in command of the state of South South, which is wealthy in oil.
Following the agreement of the three main APC blocks in River state, according to Ganduje, the PDP would soon be on its way out.
When Senator Magnus Abe’s group’s leadership was met at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, the former governor of Kano state issued the warning.
“We have now come to the end of the problem in APC Rivers State, as the three major blocks have now come to work together to build APC that we know in Rivers state.
“The blocks are the APC members that have been there despite all that happened. The second is the group of those who broke away from APC for one reason or the other and have decided to come back to the fold. That block is very strong and that shows hope and the third block is the block coming from the PDP. This is from the wind that we have seen so far.”
The leader of the delegation, Senator Wilson Ake, said he is confident in Ganduje’s ability to rejig the APC, particularly in Rivers state which he said had faced many challenges leading to disaffections and seeming disintegration.