nPDP members will attend APC convention ―Baraje

AGGRIEVED members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) in the All Progressives Congress (APC), led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, have said that they will attend and participate in the party’s convention slated for Saturday in Abuja.

Speaking in Ilorin on Thursday, Alhaji Baraje said that his group had no cause not to attend the convention as being speculated in some quarters.

“We are looking forward to the Saturday convention, we will be at the convention and after that, we shall see how things unfold,” he said.

Reacting to various issues , statements, reactions and counter-reactions about the claims in some media that President Muhammadu Buhari is not interested in meeting with the members of the nPDP, Baraje said though, he was not privy to such statement if at all it was true, but disclosed that the group or himself as the leader of the group, would not officially react now.

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He explained that when it is necessary for the presidency to invite them for discussion, talk or dialogue, they would be invited to the group, saying that they were also waiting.

On allegations that names of some people not in the fold of the mainstream APC in Kwara state were included as part of members of the Convention Committee of the party, Baraje said that he was not aware of such development, and that he or any member of his group had not been briefed either by the presidency, the party leadership or the chairman of the convention committee of the nomination of such names.

However, he said if such thing happened, it would be part of the issues to be raised at the eventual meeting with the presidency when such meeting is called but disclosed that an enlarged membership of the group would meet in the evening of yesterday (Thursday) to take further actions and a common stand on their positions.