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New acting PDP chairman, Yayari Ahmed Mohammed

 

The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party shows no signs of resolution, as the integrity faction on Friday announced the appointment of Yayari Ahmed Mohammed as acting National Chairman.

In the early hours of Friday, the National Working Committee, led by acting National Chairman Umar Damagum, suspended National Legal Adviser Kamaldeen Ajibade SAN and National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba for alleged anti-party activities.

Shortly after, another faction of the NWC, through a statement from Ologunagba, announced the suspension of Damagum and National Secretary Sam Anyanwu for similar reasons.

Ologunagba, representing the integrity group, stated that Mohammed’s appointment takes effect immediately and is in line with the PDP’s amended constitution from 2017.

The statement read in part “Following the suspension of His Excellency, Ambassador Illiya Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the appointment of Alhaji Yayari Ahmed Mohammed as the Acting National Chairman.

“The appointment which takes immediate effect is pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017)

“The NWC calls on all Organs, leaders, critical stakeholder,s and members of our great Party to remain focused at this critical time especially as the NWC commences arrangements towards the holding of the Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting already scheduled for Thursday, 24th October, 2024.”

 

 

A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governors from dissolving the executive committees of the Rivers’ chapter.

The court equally stopped them from constituting any interim committee to replace the officers of the party at the state, local government and ward levels who are loyal to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)’s Minister, Nyesom Wike.

Justice Peter Lifu gave the order in a ruling on an ex-parte motion moved by Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, on behalf of the Rivers State Executive Committee (SEC) and others at the local government and ward levels.

The judge also ordered the PDP national body and other listed as defendants not to tamper with the local government and ward leadership of the party in Rivers, elected along with the SEC this year at various congresses of the party.

He ordered that on no ground should the tenure of the executive committees at the state, local governments and the wards be truncated by the defendants pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

Although the order was made on Tuesday, the certified true copy (CTC) of the enrolled order was made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday.

NAN reports that the plaintiffs in the ex-parte application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1396/2024, are Aaron Chukwuemeka, Oye Fubara Igenewari and ThankGod Bekee, who sued on behalf of themselves and the state, local government and ward executive committees respectfully.

They had sued the PDP, Umar Damagun, acting national chairman; Samuel Anyanwu, the party’s secretary; Umar Bature; National Working Committee (NWC); National Executive Committee (NEC); Board of Trustees (BOT).

Others are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Alhaji Bala Mohammed, chairman of PDP Governors Forum as 1st to 9th defendants.

In the motion argued by Musa, the plaintiffs had alleged that the defendants were making clandestine moves to dissolve the legally constituted state, local government and ward executives committees of the party in the state.
They also alleged that the defendants, including the PDP governors, were also attempting to put in place interim committees to replace them to perform their duties and functions.
The plaintiffs asserted that unless the defendants were restrained from carrying out the unlawful act, they would be made to suffer injustice and losses.
After listening to the lawyer and perusing the exhibits tendered, Justice Lifu restrained INEC from accepting or recognising any other person or groups other than those elected at the state, local government and ward elections of the PDP in Rivers.
The judge, however, ordered the plaintiffs to file a fresh undertaking to indemnify all the defendants in case it is discovered that the restraining orders issued against the defendants ought not to have been granted.
He subsequently adjourned the matter until Oct. 4 for hearing.

 

By Flowerbudnews
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared all the 260 political ward councilorship positions in the 17 Local Government Areas in Enugu State during council polls held on Saturday.

 

The Chairman of Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), Prof. Christian Ngwu, who declared the results on Monday in Enugu, said the commission delayed the councilorship election announcement as it was scrutinising the result for hours before now.

 

It would be recalled that ENSIEC had earlier on Sunday declared PDP winner of the 17 Chairmanship positions in the state.

 

Ngwu, who also doubles as the returning officer for the polls, said that ENSIEC carefully collated and analysed the results to ensure that there were no mistakes or any infractions to the electoral law of the state.

“PDP won all 260 ward councilorship positions within the 260 political wards in the state.

“The election was duly conducted and it was most peaceful, fair, free and credible.

“ENSIEC ensured a level playing field for all 17 political parties that participated in the Enugu State Local Government Area Polls held on Saturday, Sept. 21.

“Full details of the councilorship election will come out and be made known to the public subsequently,” he said.

According to him, soon, Certificate of Return will be issued by the commission to the winners of the chairmanship and councillorship positions.

The chairman noted that there was no substantial record of violence during the polls on Sept. 21.

“The commission is not aware of any violence or break down of law and order during the polls,” he said.

 

By Flowerbudnews
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared all the chairmanship positions in the 17 Local Government Areas in the council polls held on Saturday.

The Chairman of Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), Prof. Christian Ngwu, who declared the results on Sunday in Enugu, said the Commission did an excellent job of conducting free, fair and credible polls.

 

Ngwu, who also doubles as the returning officer for the chairmanship positions for the polls, said that ENSIEC carefully collated and analysed the results to ensure that there were no mistakes.

 

He, however, said that the commission was yet to get a full compilation of results of the 260 ward councilorship positions declared at the various 17 council areas headquarters.

 

Expressing joy at the victory of the state’s ruling party, PDP, the Chairman-elect for Oji River Local Government Area, Mr Greg Amyaegbudike, said that he would make youth empowerment his priority.

 

Anyaegbudike said that he would make sure that those who are employable would be provided with jobs as well as organise skills acquisition programme that would benefit all.

 

“I will make sure that the youth of Oji River council area are gainfully employed. Those who are employable, will definitely get employed under my administration,” the chairman-elect said.

 

 

IT’S a carnival-like atmosphere as supporters and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State are in jubilant mood at the on going grand finale rally of the party currently holding at the Garrick Memorial Grammar School ground in Benin City, the State capital.

The party members and support groups are upbeat defying the early morning heavy downpour that threatened the rally. They are hopeful that the PDP would triumph at the governorship election holding next Saturday, September 21..

The venue is a mesmerizing sight as supporters dorn various colours of customised party shirts and hats.

They are chatting and exchanging banter in a very lively mood as they await the official kick off of the ceremony.

There’s an endless supply of danceable music from the Disc Jockey (DJ) as he continuously plays melodious party jingle songs and others to the admiration of all.

The Chairman, National Campaign Council, Edo 2024 Governorship Election and Governor of Adamawa State, His Excellency, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri is expected to lead other members of the council to the ceremony.

The campaign council had two Co-Deputy Chairmen, Governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Sheriff Oborevwori and his Taraba State counterpart, His Excellency, Kefas Agbu.

 

 

Facts have emerged why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reconstituted its National Reconciliation and Disciplinary Committees.

The party had, after its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in April (after more than two years), named former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, as Chairman of the National Reconciliation Committee, and former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, Chairman of Disciplinary Committee.

Another committee on Constitution Amendment was also constituted with PDP National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN), as Chairman.

But in a statement last week, the party replaced Saraki with former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, while former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, who was occupying the position before, was returned as Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee.

The party said the two committees would be inaugurated on Wednesday this week.

Saraki was appointed the PDP six-man National Reconciliation Committee in 2020 by the party’s former National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to replace former Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Seriake Dickson.

No reason was given why the committees were not inaugurated four months after they were reconstituted, or why the leaderships were changed.

A National Working Committee member of the party, who doesn’t want to be named, however disclosed that Saraki was replaced as National Reconciliation Committee chairman because he was no longer interested.

“He believes he will be used to achieve other people’s interests. They went to him over and over and he rejected the proposal,” the former NWC member added.

Saraki seemed not have shown much commitment in reconciling aggrieved PDP members, unlike when Dickson occupied that position.

Although, the present National Working Committee (NWC) members of the party emerged mostly through consensus after the 2021 National Convention, the Saraki-led National Reconciliation Committee did nothing to calm the frayed nerves that followed the May 2022 presidential primaries.

The disaffection arising from the primary election was believed to have led to the party’s loss of the presidential election, because it was not well handled.

“We expected the National Reconciliation Committee to reach out to Nyesom Wike and other aggrieved members, but nothing happened.

“This was part of the reasons why PDP lost the presidential election because there was no unity in the party. Every party was supporting candidate of his choice and nobody was talking to anyone,” a member of the party stated.

Saraki was also one of the presidential aspirants, who lost the party’s ticket to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Many PDP leaders still believed that if Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso did not leave the party and contested the presidential election on different party platforms, PDP would have won the 2023 presidential election.

Another source, however, told Sunday Telegraph that many party stakeholders don’t want Saraki to retain the chairmanship position because he used it to advance his presidential ambition the last time.

He dismissed the argument that he rejected the offer, noting that, “he used the position to his advantage when he contested the last presidential primaries.

“We want someone who does not have presidential ambition to be the chairman. This is to give every aspirant a level playing field.”

The source disclosed that the mandate of the Disciplinary Committee does not include those who played anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections.

According to him: “The committee is not expected to open old wounds. We want the bygone to be bygone. Let’s draw a line.”

National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, had at a stakeholders’ meeting earlier in the year, challenged every member of the party to state the role he or she played during the election before condemning others.

“If you rise to speak, I beg you to spell out your own role in 2023 elections, either positive or negative before you jump to accuse someone else either negatively or positively.

“Everybody had a role to play. We contributed both individually and collectively.

“You can accuse anybody here for playing pro or anti-party activities.

“We believe there are people here who will accuse some of our elders of certain roles they played.

“In my state, somebody suggested that we should suspend a member but I said no; he is free to go to anywhere he wants to go. Suspending him means you are acknowledging that he has done something bad to the party.

“Suspension is not an answer to a bad behaviour towards the party,” he said.

The PDP source said reconstituting the committees was to assuage the feelings of party members and “correct the perception that the party is in (Nyesom) Wike’s pocket.

“There is the mistrust between some stakeholders and some governors, who are in their second term, that they want to use the party structure to further their political ambition.

“That is what the reconciliation essentially is seeking to correct.”

He stated that Atiku’s position is simply to wait and see how the whole thing plays out.

“But I believe that Atiku cannot be stopped. Wike and his boys are not capable to deny him access to the party.

(New Telegraph)

 

Omosede Gabriella Igbinedion, a former member of the House of Representatives, has formally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to concerns over marginalisation and lack of equity within the party’s state operations.

Gatekeepers News reports that Igbinedion, in a letter addressed to the party chairman on August 11, 2024, expressed dismay over the sidelining of long-standing PDP members, who she described as “aboriginal PDP members,” following an “infiltration” of the party.

Igbinedion highlighted the absence of Indigenous PDP members on the Edo governorship ballot as a key point of contention.

She questioned the party’s direction and purpose, stating that her commitment to the people of Ovia supersedes her interests and affiliations.

The PDP state and national leadership are yet to comment on Igbinedion’s resignation

Credit: Independent

 

 

PDP should stop dabbling into what they do not know – The Democratic Front

 

By Danladi Ahmed

Abuja (Flowerbudnews): A pro-democracy group,The Democratic Front (TDF) has said that the People’s Democratic Party PDP can not arrogate to itself to deliver on the nation’s economy having plunged it into ruins for good sixteen years.

“Imagine a political party that failed woefully and landed the country in its present parlous economic state now pontificating on efforts to revitalize the national economy as if they ever had any clue.

“Rather than bury their heads in shame because of the roles the former ruling party played in bringing the country to its knees, they are busy pontificating on the bold initiatives and reforms being initiated by President Bola Tinubu.

In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Danjuma Mohammed and Secretary Wale Adedayo while reacting to the communique issued by PDP at the end of it National Executive Committee meeting, the TDF argued that the country has still not recovered from the mindless plundering of the economy in the PDP years.

it said: “The position of the PDP calls for outright condemnation and repudiation by every well-meaning Nigerian. If the party’s NEC had limited itself to its desperate but unrealistic bid to unify the dilapidating structures of a deeply divided political party, which the PDP has become, that communique would have attracted better attention.

“The absurdity and the manner the NEC members exhibited pretentious insensitivity to the tragic consequences of their Party’s 16 years of misrule resonates the role PDP played to hinder the growth and development of the Nigerian state.

“A political party which plundered Nigeria’s hard earned resources and brutally squandered its national patrimony for those lenghty years is expected to display remorse and responsibility on matters of economic revitalization and statecraft.

“Who will easily forget the ring-fencing of hundreds of state-owned companies and investments through an opaque privatization process, the massive diversion of oil revenue into private foreign bank accounts as well as the unconscionable sale and concession of the Nigeria power sector to unqualified and incompetent proxy companies.

“How about the loss of public funds under an alleged doubtful and dubious petrol subsidy regime, the deliberate neglect and abandonment of public infrastructure in the face of huge revenue earnings and allocations, and the flagrant disregard for the ethics of social democracy and the rule of law under the direct supervision of three PDP administrations? All these brought the nation down on its knees and unleashed poverty and economic misery on Nigerians.

“This litany of PDP’s failures and unprecedented maladministration will remain evergreen in our collective memory as a people. So it is egregiously ridiculous that PDP NEC members will cast aspersions on President Bola Tinubu highly performing economic team and asked him to reverse his impressively successful economic policies.

The group also used the opportunity to provide some insight into the gains of the Tinubu administration in the last few months.

“In less than a year of inception, the President’s economic team has pushed through policies that have led to increased revenue accruals into the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), better economic outlook and increased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projection, a more stable naira against other currencies, increased foreign exchange inflows into the country.

“The prevailing security situation in the country is a testimony of how well the President has performed in ensuring the security of lives and properties since he came to power. The safe rescue of 137 school children that were kidnapped at Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State without payment of ransom, and the decline in the rate of insurgency, banditry, and kidnappings on the highways, particularly in the north, further showcases the outstanding achievements of President Bola Tinubu in the area of national security.

“We therefore urge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his economic team to remain focused and refused to be distracted by the PDP shenanigans.
Only the ongoing task of laying the solid foundation for genuine economic growth and political stability in Nigeria is worth your attention,” it added. (Flowerbudnews)