The PDP is plotting a joint ticket by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen. Danjuma Goje and the outgoing Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu.
The outcome of the proposed alliance will pit the joint candidate for the Senate against the Senate Leader, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, who has been adopted by President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC.
PDP,sources revealed, opted for another alliance to hijack the Senate leadership in order to have a high stake in the 9th National Assembly and secure a comfortable slot for the South-East which might be left out of power sharing at the centre by the APC.
The PDP was said to be interested in a succession plan which will “sustain the current checks and balances against the Buhari administration” as symbolised by Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara.