PDP CRISES ESCALATING…. #TUKUR, A Drowning Man Who Should Go Down Alone!# ============ *‘New PDP’ Threatens Tukur With Jail Term *‘New PDP’ Reps Dare Tukur ============ The Baraje-led faction of the party has asked its lawyers to press a contempt charge against Alhaji Tukur, for flouting the orders of a Lagos High Court which asked both sides to maintain the status quo, pending the resolution of the case before it on who should lead the party. A statement issued on Thursday night by the national secretary of the Baraje-led faction of PDP, Prince Oyinlola, condemned the press conference addressed by Tukur in Abuja on Wednesday, where he threatened to sack members of the National Assembly who had declared support for the faction and arrest its officers. “We have asked our lawyers to press contempt charges against Tukur, because his statement was made in clear contempt of the orders of Lagos High Court which, three days ago, asked both sides to maintain the status quo. We will ask the court to commit him to jail for his disdain for the law and the judicial system. “We have always been saying it that Tukur represents everything that must not be seen in a democratic organisation. His statement demonstrates not just impunity but also lawlessness and crass ignorance of the tenets of the law and democratic ethos,” the statement read. Describing Nigeria as a democracy, Oyinlola said the police and other security agencies could not be used to further such agenda as being nurtured in the dictatorial mind of Tukur. “Again, we believe only an ignorant person would threaten to sack elected senators and representatives for staying on the side of truth, justice and fairness. Tukur needs be reminded that members of the National Assembly were elected by the people of Nigeria and are not his appointees, who he could dismiss like the minions in his private residence,” it added. The factional national secretary challenged Tukur to mention those who were with him, adding that “he should come to terms with the reality of the end of his reign of terror, impunity, dictatorship and lawlessness in the party.” MEANWHILE, following the threat of suspension by the embattled national chairman of PDP on Wednesday, members of the House of Reps who had declared support for the new PDP, on Thursday, dared Tukur to make real his threat, saying he had no power to suspend them. The members, in a statement signed on their behalf by a member from Rivers State, Honourable Sekonte Davies, entitled, described Tukur as “a drowning man who should go down alone.” The lawmakers said, from all relevant sections of laws and as severally pronounced by the Supreme Court, “you cannot declare anybody’s seat vacant, especially when the party is in factions. Moreover, since he has not been a member of the party, he does not also know that PDP is the greatest beneficiary of party factionalisation and fractionalisation in the present dispensation of our democratic journey.” Also, members of the New PDP, in a statement on Thursday, dismissed threat by the Tukur that the defecting members of the party would lose their seats, contending that Section 68 of the Nigerian Constitution had belied such threat. The statement, signed by Kenga Imo Ugochinyere on behalf of conveners of the New PDP, said “Section 68(1) holds that a member of any house of the legislature at any level, who decamps to another political party, cannot lose his seat as long as the reason for the cross carpeting was a result of a division or faction in his former political party.”
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:31:12 +0000
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