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To prevent the All Progressives Congress, APC from shrinking amid internal grouping threats, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo gave promises to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara and other members in the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) delegation, who met with him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.
Recall that the defunct nPDP which played a very vital role in the victory of the APC at the 2015 presidential election is aggrieved and recently protested against lack of patronage and maltreatment of its members by the APC-led Federal Government.
One of the members of the nPDP who attended the meeting and spoke with TheNewsGuru.com under condition of anonymity said Osinbajo pleaded with the group that there will be a redress to all the grievances raised by the nPDP delegation.
Also, Kawu Baraje, spokesman of the group, told newsmen that the meeting was a good beginning but they were looking forward to having a similar sit-down with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking after the meeting with the vice-president, Baraje said: “Members of the nPDP had written a letter to the party copying the President and the Vice-President.
“So the party had invited us earlier on and now it is the turn of the Vice-President, probably the next one will be the President.”
“So far so good,” he said when asked if the nPDP members were satisfied with the discussion with Osinbajo.
He added: “We are looking forward to some of the promises. There will be other meetings because we have been put into subcommittees and then we will now identify specific and general problems and then we will proceed to see Mr. President. But it was a very good meeting.”
Members of the nPDP present at the meeting were Senate President Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives; Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto governor; Abdulfatai Ahmed, governor of Kwara, and Rabiu Kwakwanso, former Kano governor.
Members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) say it is too early to know for certain if they will remain in the All Progressive Congress (APC).