ATIKU: MUAZU CANNOT ACHIEVE PEACE IN PDP, SAYS JONATHAN LACKS CAPACITY TO HAVE CONFERENCE & ELECTIONS THE SAME YEAR. Proponents of peace in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got yesterday a damning message from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The crisis in the party is not about to end, he said, adding that National Chairman Adamu Mu’azu “can’t make anything out of his reconciliation tour”. Mu’azu visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Sunday. Speaking on Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, Atiku said Obasanjo pushed him out of the PDP. Atiku said since he returned to the party, he had been kept out of its activities, adding that he could only offer his assistance towards rebuilding the party if the leadership sought his help. “If I’m requested to, no problem. But let me say, first of all, that I did not leave the PDP. I was pushed out of the PDP by my former boss and ever since I returned four years ago, the PDP has not communicated to me and I have not communicated to PDP. On the proposed national conference, the former Vice President said there was nothing wrong about Nigerians talking to one another. He pointed out, however, that the Jonathan administration does not have the capacity to conduct elections and the national conference in the same year. He said the government should have done the conference much earlier than now and ruled out the possibility of having a sovereign national conference (SNC). The nation cannot have the SNC when there is an existing constitutional arrangement, Atiku explained.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:29:19 +0000
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