Indications have emerged that the trio of Lamido, Aliyu and Suswam are behind the formation of a new political party The Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC)
This findings were made known by the Daily Trust Newspapers through its in house investigation.
The report recalled that DPC, which began its battle for registration as a political party since 2013, finally got the nod of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on July 22, 2015.
It revealed that the gulf, which cost the PDP many seats in the state and federal elections, including losing the Presidency to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has remained wide open, with three of its former governors among the seven promoters of the recently registered Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC).
The sources revealed further that the former Governors of Jigawa, Niger and Benue States, Sule Lamido, Babangida Aliyu and Gabriel Suswam, respectively were the major promoters of DPC, which has as National Chairman, one Reverend Olusegun Peters, a Yoruba man from Nigeria’s South West geo-political zone.
Speculations are riff that the trio of Lamido, Aliyu and Suswan were working in concert with other PDP governors and aggrieved leaders to float the party as an alternative platform to pull the rug off the feet of President Goodluck Jonathan as their main strategy to wreck his desperate ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election.
It could not be immediately ascertained if the three governors would still go ahead to promote the new party as an alternative to the PDP, which is still struggling to find its feet after suffering a massive electoral defeat in the 2015 elections.
The political environment has remained uncertain since May 29 that the change of baton occurred from PDP to the APC. While the PDP has remained in tatters following its defeat at the last elections, the ruling APC has been bogged down by crisis as a result of struggles among its members for control of the leadership of the federal parliament and a seeming lack of direction from the government headed by President Buhari.
