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| Theodore Orji |
Strategies to make the rallies being planned by the Peoples Democratic Party in zones and states hitch-free took the centre stage on Monday evening when President Goodluck Jonathan met state governors elected on the party’s platform behind closed-doors in Abuja.
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, which ended around 11pm at the Presidential Villa.
Orji said the planned rallies were meant to sensitize people and formally receive some politicians who recently defected to the party.
He said, “The meeting was in compliance with what the President promised us that he will be meeting regularly with PDP governors. He met with us today (on Monday) and we reviewed party activities, especially the rallies that we are going to hold in the states and zonal levels.
“The rallies are meant to sensitize the people. In Owerri, we are going to receive some people, who are coming back to the party. In other states where people are coming back to the party, they will be received formally. We discussed about party affairs.”
When asked whether the ongoing consultation by the President had to do with his planned declaration of interest in the 2015 general elections, Orji said, “It is the President that knows when to declare. This consultation is what a President should do. A President should consult with his subjects; that is what he is doing.”
Meanwhile, the MDB Solidarity Group on Tuesday described the defection of the 2011 Kwara State governorship candidate of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Belgore (SAN), to the PDP as embarrassing.
The spokesman of the group, Obalowu Olaitan, during a media briefing in Ilorin, disassociated the group from Belgore’s defection.
He also announced the merger and harmonisation of the group with other youths in the state, under the ‘APC Team Kwara.’
Olaitan claimed that the MDB Solidarity Group had membership in all the 16 local government areas of the state and had been the youth wing of the Belgore and the ACN group.
“Our forum has observed the defection of Dele Belgore to the PDP as embarrassing, not just to the group but to all lovers of firm defence of the Nigerian Constitution and democracy,” the group stated.
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