Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is set to receive high profile members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties within the next three weeks.

The chairman of the party’s Special Non-Elective National Convention and Executive Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa made the revelation while speaking to journalists in Abuja.

Although he did not reveal the identities of the high profile defectors, Okowa said that all those who had expected the party to go into oblivion because of the mass defections it experienced during its period of leadership crisis have now realised that the PDP remains the only alternative that can rescue Nigeria out of her current economic captivity.

“Many of our members that left earlier due to one form of disagreement or the other will return to their party because the National Caretaker Committee has constituted a Reconciliatory Committee as well as a Contact and  Mobilisation Committee to reach out to them.

“From the way things are going presently in this country, I believe Nigerians will realise that PDP is the only alternative that can bring Nigeria out of her present economic challenges. We are expecting high profile defectors in the next three weeks or so,” Okowa said.

On August 8, the PDP kick-started its planned moves to woo back former top profile members of the party including former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Senate President, Bukola Saraki as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.