PDP CRISES UPDATE! #Baraje’s Group Strategises On Exit Plan# The caucus meeting of the Baraje faction of the PDP, on whether the group should quit the mainstream PDP or cross to any of the existing or new political parties had been held. The communique of the group and feelers from the meeting indicated that various interests are still in disagreement on the push by some members that they should quit the PDP and move to the All Progressives Congress. Due to lack of agreement the meeting resolved to set up a contact and mobilisation committee to further explore all options before the group in case the ongoing peace talks with the main PDP fails. Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso had listed four options such as joining APC, continuing with PDP, joining a weak existing political party such as the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) and forming their own political party. In a communique signed by the group’s publicity chief, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the meeting set up the committee with a mandate “to explore other options available to the party should the dialogue with President Jonathan fails to yield any positive result for its future political activity as the vision and mission of the party cannot be derailed by any force or group of people no matter the ploys and plots. “The Committee is expected also to liaise with the new five other PDP governors and other leaders that have indicated interest to join the group and to submit their report during the next meeting of the caucus that will hold in a week’s time to ascertain how these distinguished new members would be received by the party,” the statement said. The statement expressed worries that peace meetings so far held with President Jonathan and mainstream PDP have not yielded any positive results, affirming that “all the issues we raised and presented through the General Obasanjo-led Elders Committee to President Jonathan and his people have been bluntly turned down. “The meeting noted with sadness that instead of President Jonathan to critically examine and act on some of the issues we raised, our members in various states of the federation are being persecuted, humiliated through the unfair use of state powers, arrested and put into prison as is the case in Baylesa and Gombe states just to demonstrate its disdain for peace and plot to destroy the party,” the group alleged. The meeting also accused Alhaji Bamanga Tukur of “setting up parallel chapters in states where he has nobody backing him to ensure that PDP is destroyed without any remedy,” while also lamenting that none of its demands have been met. “Some of the demands presented by our governors include the need to reverse the impunity in Rivers State, where a sitting governor was suspended from the party against the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the PDP constitution, and refusing to uphold the result of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum election that saw Governor Amaechi winning 19 to 16 votes against Governor Jang. “Others include our request for the removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as our party National Chairman knowing his flawed election as our party Chairman, and ending the impunity in Adamawa State, among other demands that will put PDP in a strong position as a political party but for reasons not to clear to some of us failed to receive the blessing of Mr. President,” the communique noted. The group particularly lamented continuous harassment and molestation of its leaders nationwide, condemning “the deployment of the police to the vicinity of the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, with a view to scuttling the caucus meeting, not knowing that the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge was used as a decoy since we’re well aware of the evil mentality of our opponents. Despite the lack of results from the peace moves, the communique said the meeting concluded that” by urging our governors to continue to pursue peace within the party in the hope that President Jonathan and Tukur’s faction would stop the persecution of the party faithful and allow common reason to prevail. New PDP chieftains that attended the meeting according to the communique included Governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); former governors Adamu Aliero (Kebbi State); Bukola Saraki (Kwara State); Danjuma Goje (Gombe State); and Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa State). Others included the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje; Deputy Chairman Sam Sam Jaja; National Secretary Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and Vice-Chairman, North-West, Ibrahim Kazuare, among others. The excuse by the Governors of Kwara and Niger States to be absent from the meeting was tabled and accepted.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:20:52 +0000
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