The National Treasurer of the New PDP, Alhaji Tanko Isiaku
Gwamma has announced his resignation from the National Working Committee of the
group with immediate effect, rejoining and pledging loyalty to the Bamangar
Tukur-led faction.
Briefing journalists at the
presidential villa, Alhaji Tanko said he has carefully studied the unfolding
events in his party and the consequences on the polity.
He said the crisis will not augur
well for the unity of the country and urged all PDP faithful to ensure that the
crisis is resolved peacefully.
The beginning of what has spiralled
into a major crack in the ruling PDP started when five PDP governors stormed
out of the PDP special convention, hence the birth of the ‘New PDP’.
Five of the governors – Abdulfatah
Ahmed of Kwara; Muazu Aliyu of Niger; Musa Kwankwaso of Kano; Sule Lamido of
Jigawa and Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State –walked out of party’s convention in
Abuja, with a claim that a lot is not done right with the Tukur leadership.
Governors Murtala Nyako of Adamawa
and Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers States, who were barred from attending the
convention, also joined the other governors to form the factional PDP.
Former Vice President, Abubakar
Atiku, Senator Bukola Saraki and former national secretary of the PDP also
joined the newly formed PDP.
A news conference was held the same
day, where the group announced that it had taken over the party’s structure,
putting former acting national chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje as
the new national chairman, while the position of the national secretary of the
new PDP faction was given to Prince Oyinlola.
The group said they took the decision
to salvage the PDP from those who have hijacked it.
The five governors claimed that they
had visited some key leaders of the party to express their displeasure over the
manner the party was being run. but nothing was done about it.
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