The new opposition party is believed to have the tacit support of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that currently controls 11 states in the country, a National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bola Ahmed Tinbubu, and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, a major chieftain of the APC.
Some of the states being considered for the taking are spread across five crucial geo-political zones of the country, with the calculation that once the new party is able to hold down these states, the others could be turned into battleground states, where it would compete for votes with the APC to shore up its chances in the 2019 elections.
The states already considered to be the strongholds of the proposed mega party are:
South-east
1. AbiA
2. Ebonyi
3. Enugu
South-south
4. Rivers
5. Akwa Ibom
6. Delta
7. Cross River
8. Bayelsa
South-west
9. Osun
10. Oyo
11. Ekiti
12. Lagos
North-east
13. Gombe
14. Taraba
15. Adamawa
North-central
16. Benue State
Source: Thisday
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