Nyako’s impunity has killed Adamawa APC’. EMBATTLED Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako, who has consistently been accusing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of impunity and undemocratic operations has been branded as the “leader of impunity and unrepentant political sinner” by the former gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) , Marcus Gundiri. Gundiri who addressed journalists on Monday in Yola on why he decamped to the PDP, said that Nyako did not only fail to implement the agreement reached during their reconciliation meeting with the Alhaji Bello Masari committee, but ensured that a majority of APC members were denied registration cards. He said: “In our agreement the task force committee set up by the governor in the name of mobilising membership drive for the party was disbanded, but after the meeting the governor did not only empower the kangaroo committee, he expanded the team and made the committee officials the leaders of APC in the state. “It is completely impossible for any mentally balanced politician to trust a man that his yes means no. This is because his level of deceit has taking over his political life style and that will kill any party that he decamped to. He explained that his return to PDP was as a result of the exit of the governor, who he accused of destroying the party due to what he described as unconstitutional and undemocratic activities of Nyako in PDP. I defeated Adamawa PDP because of Nyako. His activities are good campaign materials for any political party that faces the governor’s party in any election. He is already campaigning for PDP due to his activities in APC now. With the governor as the leader of APC in Adamawa it is a good development for the state chapter of PDP, the game is over for APC, he said. Gundiri who urged his supporters to return to PDP, pointed out that APC under the leadership of the governor cannot make any political impact in the state. Also, the Interim Treasurer of All Progressives Party (APC) in Adamawa State, Alhaji Musa Kama, has declared that APC is heading for the rocks and the political supporters of Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (rtd) might pull out of the party to join PDP if injustice perpetrated by Nyako’s leadership continues. Kamale who spoke to The Guardian in Yola said that many stakeholders were not comfortable with undemocratic practices going on in the party and are presently defecting in droves to the PDP. He said: As long as illegality becomes the order of the day in APC, we are ready to leave the party with other stakeholders. Enough is enough! We will not continue working with Governor Murtala Nyako who does not believe in democratic norms. According to Kamale, the so-called Task Force, put in place by the governor, has not been dissolved by State Interim Management Committee [SIMC], pointing out that the SIMC itself has been turned to a one-man show. Council chairmen in five local government areas have hijacked registration materials from the authentic trained supervisors and finally as I am talking to you, the allowances and transport fees for the registration supervisors and officers are yet to be paid, he said. When journalists contacted the state interim chairman of APC, Mr. Kobis Ari Thimnu, he sent a text message he is free to go. If this type of impunity can be perpetrated during registration exercise, what should be expected during the forthcoming congresses is better imagined. These people that came from the New PDP with Nyako have shown us that there is no way a leopard can change his spot with the kind of impunity they brought to the APC.” Kamale said Gundiri has made a wise decision by returning to PDP because there is lack of internal democracy in Adamawa APC under Nyako. He added: Many things have been happening since our unification meeting. We have discussed the issue of being fair to all sides, but up till now some members are being treated like outcasts. So you cannot blame anybody for defecting to the PDP and if this thing continues in the congresses, no one can guarantee the continued stay of some of our members in the party
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:26:19 +0000
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