There is confusion in the Presidency over the whereabouts of the registration certificate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The Independent National Electoral Commission issues certificates of registration to all registered political parties. According to Osun Defenders, the Presidency, in the battle to secure its hold on the PDP, has sought, without success, for the certificate of registration of the party. Sources in the Presidency told The Eagle Online that attempts to trace the certificate has been futile. Other sources said the Presidency has narrowed the search for the certificate to three political gladiators within the party. They are former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido. It was gathered that the belief in the Presidency was that the faction of the PDP that broke away on Saturday owing to complaints about the handling of its Special National Convention, must be banking on possessing the certificate to win the battle for the ownership of the party. A source said that the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to pacify the breakaway faction was because of the belief that with the certificate of registration in its possession, winning a court battle would be easy. Jonathan was said to have been humbled by the fact that without the certificate of registration in his kitty, he was fighting a lost battle against the breakaway faction that has headed to court to stop the recognition of the leadership of the party under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. A source in the Presidency said: “The President and his team know that they are fighting a lost battle if they do not have the certificate of registration with them. “It is very obvious that the ambition of the President to seek re-election in 2015 is dead once the party is handed over to the other faction by the court. “The next thing the president can do is to abandon his ambition and return to his village. “Or how do you rationalize the President joining another party to realize his ambition.” Another unnamed Presidential source said: “It is scary thinking of what an alliance of the breakaway PDP with the PDM and the APC would produce. “It is very unlikely that the PDP would be able to muster enough support to defeat such an alliance. “That is why it is almost certain that the President would find an amicable resolution of the crisis, even if it involves his having to step down his own re-election ambition and look like a hero in all of the crisis.”
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:16:13 +0000
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