Mohammed Abacha returns to PDP

AS the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defies all solutions, the son of the late Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Alhaji Mohammed Abacha, on Monday made a U-turn from his political sojourn to the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and returned to the PDP which he left in 2010 over what he described as “lack of internal democracy.”
Abacha, who drove himself in a tinted black Mercedes Benz E550 Salon car arrived the PDP National Secretariat,Wadata Plaza,Wuse, Abuja in a convoy of about seven choice vehicles at exactly 1.30p.m and immediately went into a closed door meeting with the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
Fielding questions from newsmen after the meeting, Abacha said that he started his political sojourn in the PDP in 2010 and left the same year due to lack of internal democracy at that time and that having gone round, it had now dawned on him and his followers that there was no other political party that captured the entire country than the PDP. This, he said, informed his return to the party after wide consultations.
On his meeting with the NWC of the party, he said, “the meeting was very useful. We were able to answer all the questions that were asked,we told them that our coming back was based on the ongoing reconciliation in the party and the assurances we got from the national leadership of the party as well as the wide consultations we made.”
Abacha, who won the Kano State governorship ticket under the defunct CPC in the 2011 elections but was denied, when asked whether the action was due to his late father’s antecedents, said:”That is history, let us forget the past, history is for yesterday, we are talking about today and here we are planning for tomorrow,we must forge ahead for a better tomorrow in the interest of the nation’s development.”
On whether he consulted with the Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, before he decided to return to the party and whether he requested for a waiver as required by law, he said: “I had wide consultations on our return to PDP and all the issues that made us to quit have been addressed. I recognise the governor as the leader of the party and I will get in touch with him at the right time. On the issue of waiver, that will be an issue for another day.”
Meanwhile, the party, on Monday, shed more light on the return of Alhaji Abacha.
Fielding questions from newsmen after the meeting of the party’s NWC in Abuja, its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the return of Abacha was part of the outcome of the efforts of the National Reconciliation Committee of the party headed by Governor Seraike. Dickson of Bayelsa State and the faith Abacha has in the national chairman of the party.