…As Turaki-Led NWC Seeks Police Protection To Hold Inaugural Meeting
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has barely 48 hours after the conclusion of its elective national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Saturday, the crisis in the party took another twist.
The two factions have boasted of taking over the party’s national Secretariat tomorrow, Tuesday, to have their meetings. While the Nyesom Wike-backed faction is set to hold its National Executive Committee (NEC) and BoT meeting, the party’s new chairman, Tanimu Turaki, led National Working Committee (NWC) will hold its inaugural meeting at the same venue, the party’s national Secretariat.
It will be recalled that the party has been having a running battle over the convention, which led to counter court cases, where a federal high court in Abuja and high court in Oyo state made some pronouncements.
Although the Amb. Umar Damagum-led faction of the PDP succeeded in their convention in Ibadan, where Turaki emerged as the National Chairman of the party, but the Nyesom Wike-backed faction was set to counter by holding their National Executive Committee (NEC) and BoT meeting.
The Wike-backed faction, led by Abdulrahman Mohammed, had summoned an emergency meeting of its NEC and BoT for Tuesday.
The meeting will take place at the PDP national secretariat in Wadata Plaza, Abuja, which has been under lock and key since the crisis began and the Federal High Court issued its pronouncement.
Samuel Anyanwu, an ally of Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a notice he signed on Monday, stated that the BoT is expected to convene at 11am on Tuesday.
It was, however, gathered that the PDP governors would lead party members to occupy the Secretariat as early as possible on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the newly elected Chairman of the Party, Turaki has filed a complaint to the Police Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command, seeking its protection against the Mohammed and Sen. Samuel Anyanwu-led faction.
While addressing journalists shortly after meeting with the Commissioner of Police (CP), FCT Command, Dantawaye Miller, Turaki, who said they are prepared to lay down their lives to defend democracy, noted that as law-abiding people, they came to tell the police that they are having their inaugural meeting tomorrow, Tuesday.
He said: “We came to have an interface with the Commissioner of Police of the FCT regarding the meeting we’ve planned, which we are going to have tomorrow. We’re going to have the inaugural National Working Committee meeting of our party, the Peoples Democratic Party, tomorrow.
“At this meeting, we have invited all our stakeholders and founding fathers. We’ve invited all our governors and members of the National Assembly. We’ve invited members of the Board of Trustees, our State Chairman, and other critical stakeholders. And so, as law-abiding citizens, we’ve come here to inform the police that we will be holding our meeting tomorrow.
“This will be the inaugural meeting since we left Ibadan after our election at our National Elective Convention. Now, we have seen things flying on social media, a purported notice of the BOT and NEC meeting given by people who, for all intents and purposes, are no longer members of this party, as I’m talking to you today.”
The national chairman added, “Next to God, in the management of political parties is the National Convention. The decision taken in a National Convention overrides every other decision that has been taken by any organ of a party. Our National Convention has made a decision to expel these elements from the party. And so, they’re no longer members of our party. And so, we have reported the moves they’re making to the police, because we don’t want any situation that could lead to a breach of the peace. As leaders, more than anyone else, we want peace to be sustained.
“This democracy that our leaders, our forefathers, have sacrificed their lives to bring about to this level, we shall be ready to also give our own life to sustain this democracy.”
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