The five-year unresolved crisis of the troubled Peoples Democratic Party, Ogun State chapter, took a dangerous dimension on Wednesday as two factions loyal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Governor Gbenga Daniel engaged themselves in a public brawl
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In apparent reaction to a reported free-for-all by supporters of the ACN over the weekend as a result of battle for supremacy between the National Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and the party’s gubernatorial flag bearer in Kwara State in the 2011 election, Dele Belgore (SAN), the PDP wondered why a party’s registration exercise would turn into a shooting exercise “as if guns are akin to party membership cards.”
The party, which said the position presented at the last National Working Committee meeting by the National Vice-Chairman (South-West), Chief Segun Oni, was in the best interest of the PDP in the zone
A few days ago, an assortment of characters, led by the Governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, marched on the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party at Wadata Plaza, Abuja, primarily to declaim their visceral hatred and fear of Dr. Kalu under the veneer of protesting his purported efforts to rejoin the PDP. The shady and duplicitous attributes of these characters are not hidden from the Nigerian people. That they are led on this disgraceful display of ignorance and squander of the people’s time and resources by the very patron saint of ignorance himself, Governor Orji, is not in the least surprising. But the willingness of members of the National Assembly, including, emphatically, distinguished senators of the republic, to participate, openly and vocally, in this extraordinary disadventure, brings unmitigated opprobrium to that assembly and further exposes the colossal failure of leadership in Abia State
In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN however expressed its happiness that Tukur has finally come to terms with what the ACN and others have been saying for a long time that the PDP lacks the wherewithal to preside over a country that is hungry for security and development like Nigeria
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Olayinka Oyebode, said the people of the state are “too intellectually sophisticated” to be taken in by unfounded lies being spewed by the PDP in the South West, whose arrowheads it accused of having been indicted of electoral fraud by the courts of law
The PDP accused Fayemi of using an agriculture project as a cover up for the withdrawal of the money from the state’s account
The LLPP said the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission is due for dissolution with its failure to meet up with the standard expected of an independent umpire
I am surprised that educated people like them should be doing that because when Bamanga Tukur took over as the national chairman of PDP, he said his leadership will be for reconciliation. And when the PDP leaders of Ekiti State opposed the return of (former Governor Ayo) Fayose to the party, Bamanga Tukur intervened
Kalu, who spoke with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said that his focus for now is the unity of the Igbo race with the sole objective of producing the next president of Nigeria using the platform of the 2015 general election
The PDP, which hailed the Thursday tribunal judgments, one of which also nullified the election in Yaba Local Council Development Area and ordered a rerun, commended the judges for standing by the truth even in the face of glaring manipulations by the ACN
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said there is no better indication that the PDP is deeply worried by the talks than the resort to downright lies and abuse of the opposition parties by the PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh, in order to discredit the talks
The decampees, who cut across all the local government areas of the state, cited good leadership in both government and the ACN in the state as reasons for their decision to leave the PDP
In a release signed by the Zonal Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Kayode Babade, the PDP prayed that the Almighty Allah will give the family of Lam Adesina, the people and government of Oyo State the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss
The National Publicity Secretary of the PPA, Dr. Madukwe Ukaegbu, who spoke on behalf of the party in a statement, said the PDP has failed in meeting the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians and does not thus qualify to be entrusted with leadership again
The two sides struggling for the soul of the PDP in the state have embarked on the suspension of prominent members of the party in the opposing faction
The PDP candidate (Appellant) had gone to the appellate court seeking a declaration that the issue of qualification is a matter which the Election Petitions Tribunal should assume jurisdiction on, while the ACN candidate is seeking to quash the remaining reliefs sought by the appellant at the Tribunal, on the grounds that the live issue of qualification had already been determined by the tribunal
The PDP therefore urged Fayemi to save the state from ridicule, embarrassment of his comedy of governance and total rejection by the people by resigning immediately
The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has described the purported indictment of a former Governor of Osun State and National Secretary of the PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, by a panel set up by the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeola-led Action Congress of Nigeria government in the state as “cheap blackmail and cover up plot that won’t work.”
The Change Advocacy Party and its candidate, Dr. Imoro Kubor, had gone to court to contest the suitability of Dickson standing for the election, saying the governor was not the flag bearer of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party