Retired military officers reviving SDP for 2019 elections
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source63 less than 48 hours after some top members of opposition pdp defected to the moribund social democratic party sdp reports emerged that some retired military officers were also among those reviving the party1 the reported that at least two frontline members of the groups that have coalesced into the party1 the report reveals that there was an imminent exodus of members of the national assembly elected on the tickets of the ruling all progressives congress apc and the peoples democratic party pdp to sdp in march1 professors jerry gana and tunde adeniran as well as a former deputy senate president alhaji ibrahim mantu who are pdp stalwarts have joined sdp after the signing of a memorandum of understanding mou with the sdp leadership1 the ex-military officers are among the brokers leading talks to put the sdp on a good stead ahead the 20191 he said some influential individuals were talking to former president olusegun obasanjo to collaborate with the party1 according to a coordinator of the coalition for nigeria movement cnm was fully discussing with others on the need to strengthen the sdp1 a lot of the members of both the pdp and the apc have not only been working underground for us but have indeed joined the fray unofficially1 so one or two things will soon happen one of which is the imminent exodus from the two parties to the pdp in fact before the end of march 20181 many influential personalities were seriously engaging other power brokers for collaboration towards making the sdp the party to beat in the next round of elections1