PDP raises the alarm over S’West states’
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• Flays sealing off of Kalu’s property
• Taraba leaders bicker over Suntai
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the
South West geo-political zone yesterday condemned
what it called the tragic debt situation which the All
Progressives Congress (APC) government was
plunging the South West states.
This happened just as some stalwarts of the PDP in
Taraba State Sunday exchanged hot words over
when and how the Acting Governor, Garba Umar,
could become the substantive governor of the state.
Also, the PDP through its acting National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Tony Caesar Okeke also condemned
the sealing off of a property belonging to former Abia
State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu for criticising the
recent deportation of Nigerians from Lagos State,
describing the development as “reminiscent of the
infamous Decree No 4 of 1984.
In another statement by its national auditor, Alhaji
Adewole Adeyanju, the party called on Nigerians to
be very wary of the actions and sayings of the APC
governors and lawmakers on the issue of the local
government autonomy.
The PDP described the sealing off of Kalu’s property
as a clear signal of the dictatorial and inhuman
treatment to be expected from an APC controlled
government.
The South West PDP leaders who attended a
reconciliation meeting of the party in Abuja
disclosed at the weekend that the least indebted
state in the South West at the moment allegedly
owed at least N60 billion.
They also confirmed that the PDP in the zone had
begun serious strategic and coordinated moves to
snatch Ekiti State away from the All Progressives
Congress (APC) next year.
To this extent, the PDP chapters in the six states said
they had established a joint consultative forum that
is charged with the responsibility of identifying and
addressing critical political challenges for the party
within the zone before the 2014 Ekiti governorship
polls.
Secretary of the forum and chairman of PDP in Ondo
State, Ebenezer Omotayo Alabi, lamented that more
than any other regime in the past, the present set of
governors in the South West had thrown the zone
into alleged huge indebtedness.
According to Alabi,” the APC states in the Southwest
are the most indebted states because of the bad
economic policies in place. No state in the South
West today is not indebted, the least indebted state
in the South West is allegedly owing at least N60
billion”.
Chairman of the forum and Ogun State PDP
chairman, Adebayo Dayo, disclosed that the joint
action was not targeted at only Ekiti governorship
but the entire South West.
According to him, the reconciliation exercise
embarked upon by the national leadership of the
PDP would only complement the peace process,
which had reached an advanced stage in the South
West chapters of the party.
Dayo’s position was supported by his Oyo State PDP
counterpart, Abdul Kareem Yinka Taiwo, who
disclosed that a lot of house mending measures had
already been taking to make the take over of South
West by PDP in 2015 a success.
“We are starting from Ekiti and Osun from where we
will intensify the campaigns to take the remaining
four South Western states in 2015.
The South West PDP leaders expressed satisfaction
that many aggrieved PDP members in the zone had
embraced the reconciliation measures.
Osun State PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwole,
confirmed that the PDP had become more united in
Osun at the moment than it was in the past.
“We have made a declaration for 2014 and we have
made it clear that we are sending Aregbesola out
next year. They are counting on pockets of
disagreements within the PDP but they will be
disappointed because we are in very strong unity in
Osun PDP now,” he said.
PDP members in Taraba State yesterday exchanged
hot words over the health condition of Governor
Danbaba Suntai.
A chieftain of the party, Alhaji Baba Adi, faulted a
statement credited to Senator Emmanuel Bwacha
that only the death of Governor Danbaba Suntai
could turn the acting governor into a substantive
governor.
Senator Bwacha who represents Taraba southern
senatorial district had in an interview stated that
President Goodluck Jonathan only became
substantive President after the death of former
President Umar Yar’Adua and that the event at the
national level was a precedent that should be
applied to the Taraba situation.
But Adi, in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday
said the senator’s statement was a deliberate
twisting of relevant provisions of the constitution,
clarifying that the constitution mentioned
permanent incapacitation and death for a governor
to cease to hold office.

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If it applied to the president it should be applied to the governor aas well this Haausa people self. they have bad short time memory.

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How much has Yar'adua/GEJ and GEJ/SAMBO squandered since they came into power? when Madam due process (Ezekwesili) challenged the FG to an open debate on the mismanagement of the foreign reserves, we saw what happened! NOI (Ngozi) denied it, Okupe and Labaran denied it but Sanusi confirmed it stylishly. Up till date, the FG as refused to come out and tell Nigerians were they kept the monies or how they spent the monies. After depleting foreign reserves saved by OBJ, they still went ahead in a carnival/Christmas mood to seek monies to borrow from Governments/Private lenders e.t.c and yet we aren't seeing any meaningful impact of the monies been borrowed. We are not even talking about the Aids, Grants we get from foreign countries because we Nigerians do not see the impact of those monies! you turn on your radio, you watch your TV, you read Newspapers we keep hearing/seeing/reading billions of Naira awarded for construction of roads, dams, power projects blah blah blah and yet Nigeria is still at a rate of retrogression even with all our earnings! is that not gross mismanagement by The Party in Power (PDP)?? we know APC is borrowing monies and we are seeing the Impact of the Borrowed monies and if we decide to make APC governors account for the monies they borrowed, it will be written in black on a white Paper but can the FG under PDP say the same for themselves?