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Joel Madaki asked PDP elected officials to respect the party’s constitution.
A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Adamawa has warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako, to stop rebelling against the Jonathan administration.
Messrs Abubakar and Nyako are members of the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the PDP that is opposed to Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the party and also opposed to any plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election.
The chairman of the Adamawa PDP faction, Joel Madaki, who spoke to journalists in Yola, said the party would no longer tolerate any action from its members that breaches the PDP constitution and the rule of law.
“We implore members of the PDP who are working against the interest of the party to, as a matter of conscience, reconsider their stand and support President Jonathan so that he can deliver on his promise of dividends of democracy,” Mr. Madaki said.
“Since assumption of office, President Jonathan has shown through his words and deeds that he is a real democrat. Some people had misconstrued him as a weakling, not knowing that his spirit of tolerance is a rear attribute of a democrat. Those that walked out on the president and gave him conditions would not have attempted it if it were another president other than Jonathan.”
Mr. Madaki warned the ‘rebel group’ that PDP in the state will soon take a strong position on all elected office holders in the state who are working to destroy the party.
“All elected representatives under the platform of PDP are once again advised to read the writings on the wall and distance themselves from deceit”, he said.
The party chairman said the Baraje-led PDP is on the path of perdition as people of conscience would not accept their conditions.
“Some people are trying to give us superfluous conditions in order to hijack it. The party belongs to all Nigerians not one man or some group of people who thinks they can do as they wish. Therefore we cannot accept any mundane condition as the party is not the property of anyone and hence no one has the propriety to say return the party to him”.
In a reaction to Mr. Madaki’s position, the Chairman of Adamawa State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Adamu Kamale, said Mr. Madaki lacks the constitutional powers to preside over the affairs of PDP.
He said Mr. Madaki is yet to meet the party’s constitutional requirement for new members and returnees to the party.
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