16th September, 2014
The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) said in Abuja that it had decided join either the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), or the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Alhaji Abdullahi Mohammed, Acting National Secretary, DPP, said this in an interview with NAN on Tuesday.
“We had our party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on how to move the party forward and we are trying to see if we can join either the PDP or APC.
“The party DPP will either join the party of common interests with it or in the alternative, form an alliance with either one of them.”
He said most of the state chairmen preferred to go into alliance with the party of its choice. He, however, said DPP had constituted a committee to look into the best alternative for it.
Mohammed said that the party would reconvene in a few weeks to finalise the plan.
On the party’s strength, Mohammed said it had offices in all the six geo-political zones of the country.
“For now we can’t say that we are all over the country because we have lost most of our members to PDP and APC. We don’t have even a single electoral representative now; most of them, if not all, have defected to either PDP or APC.
“We are at our weakest point; looking into the political terrain, we have a policy of winner takes all.
“So you find it is only a few people that have the ability to resist the temptation of being drawn to the parties that are in government,” he said.
He said the ruling party had lured people away from the opposition. “So virtually what you see in reality is what we have in operation; it is not democracy but simply a transitional process to democracy,” Mohammed said.