There appears to be a crack in the home front of Vice President
Namadi Sambo as the Kaduna State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic
Party, PDP, yesterday split into two with a faction pledging its loyalty
to the Abubakar Kawu Baraje led group.
Y'all know there are two PDP factions
now so to distinguish them we have
to call one - President Jonathan's PDP
and the one that broke away last
weekend - former VP Atiku Abubakar's
PDP. So the chairman of President
Jonathan's PDP Bamanga Tukur today
held a press conference in Abuja
where he threatened members of
Atiku's PDP with suspension, called
them impostors and said the police
should regard them as such. Lol. 2015
will be interesting. What he said at the
press conference below.
Our reason for being here is to
neither inform you without any iota of
doubt that the Peoples Democratic
Party has no faction and there is
neither room nor reason whatsoever
for such a claim under any guise.
The PDP has only one duly elected
National Executive Committee (NEC)
under my Chairmanship. I wish
therefore to state with all emphasis
that any group of persons parading
themselves as leaders of NEC or any
other organ of our party are
impostors and I urge all Nigerians,
especially the security agencies and
other institutions of democracy to
regard them as such.
Let me state categorically that the PDP
as the sole custodian of the sacred
mandate of over 160 million Nigerians
and who in the last fourteen years
has lifted high the banner of
democracy will not fold its arms while
some undemocratic and unpatriotic
elements destroy our common
destiny by causing divisions and
confusion among the people.
Consequently, we shall ensure that
any person who is not duly elected
into any leadership position in our
great party and has not been duly
assigned any role but goes ahead to
arrogate such to himself will be made
to face the full wrath of the law.
Similarly, all persons elected on the
platform of our great party at all levels
who identify with these enemies of
the oneness and greatness of our
party shall have their seats declared
vacant as required by law.
We shall leave no stone unturned to
ensure that such persons and indeed
any other individual who attempts to
subvert the leadership of the PDP shall
reap in full, the consequences of such
actions.
I wish to emphasize that the PDP has
adequate mechanism for internal
conflict resolution. All party members
are therefore advised to ventilate their
grievances through this medium.
There is only one lawfully recognized
PDP and I am firmly in charge,”
Bamanga Tukur declared.
Meanwhile 26 Senators and at least 57
members of the House of
Representatives have declared loyalty
to “The New PDP” chaired by
Abubakar Baraje.
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