Baraje, G7 Lack Institutional Memory-PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the call by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje’s led New PDP for Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s removal as immaterial adding that it only exposes their dearth of institutional memory. The new PDP had demanded the removal of Tukur on grounds that his readmission into the party after his expulsion in 2006 was faulty. The national publicity secretary of PDP, Oliseh Metuh while reacting to the repeated calls by Baraje-led PDP, said Tukur and others expelled then were given blanket waiver and amnesty by the Alex Ekweme’s reconciliation committee set up in 2007 by the leadership of the party. Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, Metuh said “in 2007 we set up Ekweme reconciliation committee, the committee gave a blanket amnesty, a blanket waver for all people, who have left the party or offended the party or the party sacked but free to come back and we wipe away every single thing and start on a clean slate as if it has never happened. “So, what that meant is that even if it is true that the National Chairman or some other people have been suspended or expelled by the party, that Ekweme’s report gave a blanket amnesty to them and brought them back and restore them to their original position. “We have looked at the G7 or we have looked at this our aggrieved brothers, minus the governor of Jigawa state, we don’t think of any other person that has institutional memory to remember things that happened in this our party from inception. There is nobody there that has ever been in the party administration except our former National Chairman. And again only in 2008. So he would not know what has happened in this party before then.” The party’s spokesman further noted “there is no need to be throwing banters on people who do not have institutional memories and people who do not have records and people who never participated in any decision making during that period.” He stated that “the National Chairman of the party is a foundation member of this party and he is one of the founding fathers of the party. Now, apart from the Ekweme’s report, for the National Chairman to go on a campaign and win a general election at the convention ground and nothing like this ever came up and nobody brought it up, it becomes completely immaterial of what they are saying at this point.” Metuh challenged the new PDP to explain to Nigeria why they opposed to Tukur’s leadership of the party. “Are they afraid of Bamanga Tukur because he is moving the party forward, are they afraid of him because he is a strong personality, do they want the PDP to have a weaker Chairman, do they want the PDP that would not be supportive of the President as leader of the party, that is what we want to know. “They should tell us why they are completely opposed to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur being Chairman of the PDP. We are worried about why they keep on harping on it and the more they shout at Bamanga Tukur the more we cherish the National Chairman that we have, the more we are proud of his achievements, the more we are more receptive to his ideas. They can continue pushing, Chairman is in charge of the party and we are happy with him,” he said.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:51:30 +0000
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