Nigerians have continued to react over the looming decimation of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

This follows the exit of the party’s pillars, such as former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, many ex-governors, and former Senate President, David Mark. Arising from a meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, the PDP members, led by Atiku Abubakar, encouraged all well-meaning members of the party and other patriotic Nigerians to join the coalition. Atiku is leading some key leaders of PDP, including former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, ex-Senate President David Mark, and other party bigwigs out of the party. Their decision to dump the main opposition party had been speculated far and near but was confirmed after a meeting of Concerned Leaders of the party on Tuesday.

UGAMATV earlier reported that the top opposition figures had held a closed-door meeting to deliberate on the lingering crisis affecting the main opposition party and the way forward.

The meeting of Concerned Leaders of the party, called to discuss the disturbing condition of the party, came barely 24 hours after its National Executive Council, NEC, announced to Nigerians that all issues dragging the party down had been settled.

The PDP held its NEC meeting on Monday, after which the acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, declared that the party’s NEC has affirmed Samuel Anyanwu as the national secretary. He said that Anyanwu’s affirmation was one of the key resolutions reached during the meeting of the NEC, which remains the highest decision-making organ of the party. Some leaders of the party, such as former presidents of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and Adolphus Wabara, and ex-BoT leader, Bode George, who attended the NEC meeting, were confident that the party had finally regained itself. Leaving the PDP alongside Atiku Abubakar are former Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi), along with other senior figures. The PDP has remained polarised since Atiku defeated the former Governor of Rivers State in the 2023 presidential primary election. After the primary election, Wike formed a group consisting of five Governors, which they called G-5, and worked for the emergence of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, as President while still in the PDP. Atiku himself was criticised for contesting the 2023 election, which, according to the gentleman’s agreement, was the turn of the South to produce the next president after a northerner had ruled for eight years. Since the party’s loss in the last presidential election, coupled with the exit of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as its National Chairman, the PDP has never been the same again. Atiku, a businessman, served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. Before then, he ran for the office of governor of Adamawa State in 1990 and 1996 unsuccessfully, but won in 1998. But before he was sworn in, he was selected as running mate to former military leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, during the 1999 presidential