GA TUNANIN WASU SHUGABANNI A JIHAR KANO Almost all the National Assembly PDP members from the 7 states have joined their governors in the New PDP. Daily Trust 2/09/2013. All three senators from Sokoto, Kwara, Jigawa, 2 from Kano and 2 from Adamawa were among those that walked out of the PDP convention on Saturday. “I can tell you that myself and Senator Hassan Barata are with our governor because he is our leader,” Adamawa Senator Jibrilla Bindo told Daily Trust yesterday. From Kano, Senate Chief Whip Bello Hayatu Gwarzo and Basheer Garba Lado are in the New PDP, as is Senator Abdullahi Adamu from Nasarawa State. Three Kwara senators, including former governor Bukola Saraki, as well as the six House of Representatives members from the state are for the ‘New PDP.’ In Niger, two senators and seven House members have joined their governor, as did two senators and 13 House members from Rivers state. Senator Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi (PDP, Kwara North) said he was part of the ‘New PDP’ saying, “I attended the meeting on Saturday.” For his part, Rep. Sani Idriss Kutigi (PDP, Niger), said: “Not only National Assembly members but all stakeholders in our states are with the governors. Our loyalty to our governors cannot dwindle, it has never happened. Once my governor moves, I move with him.” On whether the breakage of the PDP may lead to leadership change in the National Assembly, Rep. Kutigi said: “We are not leaving the PDP; our governors only formed a new PDP”. Rep. Mustapha Bala Dawaki (PDP, Kano) said, “A House cannot collapse and leave those living in it. It collapses with them. So we are with our governor, he is the owner of the House and since he left, we too must leave.” Meanwhile, PDP chapters in states whose governors are now in the ‘New PDP’ are to transform their party structures to perfect their breakaway from the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP. Daily Trust learnt that the state chapters of the PDP in the affected states have been asked to relate only with the Kawu Baraje group and ignore any communication from the Tukur- led side. In Rivers State, the Chief G.U. Ake faction of the PDP would be revived and given due recognition by the New PDP as authentic PDP in the state, sources in the party said. Daily Trust learnt that in line with this, state chairmen of PDP states loyal to Tukur held a meeting yesterday but it was boycotted by the chairmen of states loyal to the Baraje faction. When contacted, Niger PDP chairman Abdulrahaman Enagi, his Sokoto counterpart Madawaki Sabo Yabo and Kwara PDP spokesman Mas’ud Adebimpe declined comment. But chairman of PDP in Kwara North, Alhaji Isiaka Oniwa, told Daily Trust the decision to break away from Tukur’s side was a welcome development that would salvage the party, adding that members of the party in the state are fully in support of Saraki as leader of the party in the state.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:42:59 +0000
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