The President is mounting serious pressure on the leadership of the Senate to persuade aggrieved PDP men in the Senate not to carry out their plan to dump the party in 2014, promising to "compensate" them.
But one of the senators, who confirmed that meetings were held at the instance of the Presidency, said most of them had made up their minds to already defect to the APC and it is final.
The senator said, “Already some of us have made up our minds to defect and there is no amount of pressure that would stop us. We will formally write the Senate president when we resume in January."