Breaking: No more PDP Governors' Forum, party's aggrieved candidates proscribe opposition political organisation
A group which tags itself as the Concerned Candidates and Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (CCSP) has declared it has proscribed the PDP Governors’ Forum.
The forum is an umbrella body for the 11 governors in Nigeria on the platform of the PDP with Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti as its chairman.
The agitating group says it believes the governors on the platform of the PDP were the masterminds of the ‘unity list’ that led to the emergence of the newly inaugurated National Working Committee (NWC) during the December 9 national convention.
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The spokesperson for the group, Emmanuel Obi-Nwosu, revealed that its own factional NWC would be inaugurated on January 22 adding that this date is “to enable all members of the NWC who travelled out for holidays to return.”
According to him, the forum is oppressive and retrogressive to the party.
“Only organs of the party as duly recognized by the party constitution shall henceforth function as stipulated in the constitution.
“To this end, the hitherto oppressive and retrogressive anti-democratic PDP Governors’ Forum, which is completely alien to the party’s constitution, is hereby proscribed.
“The recommendations of the well constituted strategy and Inter-Party Committee; which as jettisoned by the defunct National Caretaker Committee (NCC) of the party; will be revisited with a view to ensuring its full implementation,” he said.
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New Telegraph reports that the Prince Uche Secondus-led NWC is however warning the group against using PDP’s logo, slogan, flag or any insignia of the party as part of its activities.
The party’s national publicity secretary of PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, had said the party would meet with all contestants at the convention in January, 2018, but warned that persons who use their party identity to create a faction risk being arrested.
NAIJ.com earlier reported how the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Tuesday, January 2, it would capture Lagos in the 2019 governorship election.
The PDP publicity secretary in the state, Mr Taofeek Gani made the assertion in an interview with newsmen in Lagos.
“We will shock the All Progressives Congress (APC) by winning the governorship election in Lagos in 2019,’’ Gani said.
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Source: Naija.ng