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Taraba PDP leaders visited the Adamawa governor.
Iro Dan Fulani
As the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deepens, some party leaders in Taraba State have resolved to join forces with the leaders in neigbhouring Adamawa by declaring support and loyalty to the new PDP faction led by Abubakar Baraje.
During a solidarity visit to the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, on Saturday, the Taraba faction, led by a former chairman of the party in the state, Abdulmumuni Vaki, also called for the resignation of Mr. Tukur and pointed out that their faction was also protesting its exclusion from the recently-concluded national convention of the party in Abuja.
He said that his faction was disenfranchised even when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared null and void the congress that brought the rival executive into power.
Mr. Vaki said that in the conduct of the last congress, majority of the members of PDP were disenfranchised and described those parading themselves as PDP members as outsiders who joined PDP when they lost elections in their various parties.
‘’We are in Adamawa to confer with Governor Nyako and to ask him not to be perturbed by the antics of the detractors who do not want the party to grow,’’ he said, adding that they were unflinchingly behind the new PDP under Kawu Baraje.
While responding, Mr. Nyako told the party members that the seven governors took the decision to set up the new PDP following the gross disrespect of the constitution and manifesto of the party by the Bamanga Tukur-led faction. He said that they decided to rescue the party having realized that the party was drifting.
He also listed the raging PDP crisis in Rivers and other states as some of the reasons for their action, in addition to the crisis in the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in which they disregarded the votes of 19 governors for that of 16 governors.
Mr. Nyako regretted that they made all efforts to draw the attention of the leadership to the drift in the party but realized that their efforts were not getting the desired response from the affected quarters.
The governor said that Taraba and Adamawa had suffered so much injustice in the hands of Mr. Tukur which resulted in the way and manner in which the party executives were unilaterally dissolved and replaced by Mr. Tukur’s ‘stooges.’
He said even though the dissolution of the Adamawa State party executive was greeted by protests from all quarters, Mr. Tukur refused to change his stance even against the counsel of governors and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“Even though the dissolution of the party was rescinded by 10 out of 12 members of the National Working Committee of the party, the National Chairman refused to be pacified even after being prevailed upon to do so by relevant stakeholders including OBJ (Mr. Obasanjo) and governors of the party.
“In order to ensure that his dictatorial proclivities reign supreme in the party, Tukur stood against the decision of the NWC and pleadings of important stakeholders who were disturbed by the scale and level of impunity being entrenched in the party.”
Mr. Nyako said the dissolution of the Adamawa State executive of the party could have been rescinded as it was never ratified by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.; but for Mr. Tukur’s antics.
The Governor added that with the new level of arbitrariness in the PDP, it was possible for five legislators to contrive the impeachment of a speaker that was backed by 27 members, as experienced in Rivers, just as it was possible for 16 governors to defeat 19 others during the NGF election saying that is the highest form of travesty ever witnessed in the polity.
“The level of impunity being promoted has reached a level where five is greater than 27 and 16 is greater than 19; even a kindergarten pupil will tell you that arithmetic is highly criminalized,” he said.
Mr. Nyako said any party that wants an everlasting peace and progress cannot tolerate such high level of injustice that has now become the culture of the party.
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