Convention shocker: PDP Splits!
By Soni Daniel, Emma Ujah and Henry Umoru Atiku, 6 govs form faction *Baraje, Oyinlola, Jaja lead faction *Other national officers to emerge soon Exactly 15 years after its formal launch, the lingering crisis in the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP, degenerated, yesterday, when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and seven governors broke away, formed a faction and named new national officers for it. The governors are: Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, and Babangida Aliyu of Niger. The governors and their teeming supporters had earlier stormed out of the Eagle Square, venue of the PDP Special Convention, after they alleged that the list of delegates for the election of national officers of the party, scheduled to be conducted at the convention, and the contestants had been manipulated by the leadership to usher in their preferred candidates. Sunday Vanguard learnt that the PDP inc...