New PDP ,G-7 Merge With APC After Meeting with Buhari,Tinubu,Others -

The New Peoples Democratic Party n PDP has merged with the All Progressives Congress,APC. All the G7 governors are also part of the merger,reporters were told.
Alhaji Kawu Baraje ,chairman of the New PDP announced this to news men after a meeting attended by new PDP leaders,G7 governors and leaders of All Progressives Congress,APC at Kano State Lodge Asokoro Abuja.
Baraje who who read the communiqué also said that all the G7 governor are part of the merger.
The communiqué was read after a meeting attended by G7 governors including Rotimi Amaech,(Rivers)Rabiu Kwankwaso(Kano) Murtala Nyako(Adamawa)Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Abdulfatah Ahmed(Kwara)Sokoto and Jigawa state governors were absent but insiders said they sent representatives.Baraje said all of the new PDP members are part of the merger.
Though Aliyu and Ahmed left the meeting before it ended,Baraje said they left after taking permission .
The communiqué read by Baraje said “ a meeting of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress,APC and the new PDP met this morning at the Residence of Kano state Governor,Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in Abuja.
After exhaustive deliberations,the two parties agreed to merge in order to rescue our fledgling democracy and the Nation.”
The communiqué was signed by Chief Bisi Akande for APC leadership and Alhaji Kawu Abubakar Baraje .
Political chieftains present at the meeting include General Muhammadu Buhari,Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,Kashim Imam,Timipre Sylva,Olagunsoye Oyinlola,Bukola Saraki,Aminu Bello Masari,Chief Bisi Akande and Lai Mohammed among others.

Sources said despite assurances by NPDP chairman ,Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa seems still having difficulties making up his mind on the issue.But his colleagues have advised him to come along so that he will not be messed up in PDP.Curiously,Governor Aliyu media aide reportedly claimed that his boss was not at the meeting and that Niger State governor remains a PDP member.Even worse,the Niger State Deputy governor errorneously said on TV said Amaechi was the only G7 governor present at the press conference announcing the merger.