The group detailed a long list of violation of the law by the Tukur-led PDP.
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a dramatic twist Tuesday as the breakaway faction led by Abubakar Baraje asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP.
The new faction accused the Tukur-led PDP of failing to notify INEC of an amendment to the party’s constitution as required by the Nigerian constitution.
A statement of claims which the Baraje faction is taking before the Lagos High Court, also asked the court to declare Mr. Tukur an illegal chairman of the ruling party on account that his membership of the PDP was not properly approved as stipulated, after his expulsion by the National Executive Council of the PDP in 2001.
The statement said the party’s constitution was amended in 2009 to give effect to the 2012 PDP constitution. However, the group said it has found evidence that “strange clauses” which were not part of the proposed amendment were inserted into the original produced version of the 2012 constitution, and those alterations were not approved by the party convention and the National Executive Committee as required by law.
The group said those clauses rendered the current PDP constitution “forged and invalid”.
“The forged 2012 constitution was not equally filled before INEC as required by the constitution, thereby making the PDP constitution upon which the 2013 convention was held an invalid document and the outcome of that convention invalid, as it was held with no valid constitution,” the claims filed by the Baraje faction, seen by journalists, said.
“The proof of these evidence can be seen in the approved memo by the PDP NEC upon which the amendment was done in the 2012 and the original version of the PDP constitution filled with INEC will as well prove these violations.”
A spokesperson for INEC, Kayode Idowu, said there was no immediate information on the petition.
The application is the latest indication the crisis rocking the ruling party was far from over.
The Baraje faction has the support of seven governors, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and several lawmakers. They accuse the Tukur-led PDP of hijacking the party and being dictatorial.
A meeting between both sides fixed for Tuesday was postponed till September 10.
In its filing before the court and INEC, the Baraje faction of the party recalled how Mr. Tukur was fired from the party on 31 May 2001, along with seven others.
Those sacked were Bamanga Tukur, Don Etiebet, Asheik Jarma, Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, Emmanuel Ibeshi, Harry Marshal and Gbenga Olawepo.
The group cited Article 10(b) iii of the PDP 2009 constitution and Article 8(17) of the 2012 amended constitution which states that any member of the party who loses his membership by expulsion can only return to the party with the approval of the party executive at his ward, state and national levels, who shall give him a waiver.
“Since the expulsion of Bamanga Tukur in 2001, he has not complied with the above requirement of the PDP constitution, meaning that his purported participation at the 2012 convention where he was elected was a fraud and invalid, as he is not yet a member of the party,” the group said.
The Baraje faction also asked for the declaration of the August 2013 convention of the PDP as illegal based on “participation of ‘illegal delegates’, the disqualification of elected delegates by the Screening Subcommittee of the National Convention Committee, and the failure of the party to comply with the provision of Section 85(1) of the Electoral Act.
The section holds that, “a registered political party shall give INEC at least 21-day notice of any convention, congress, conference or meeting convened for the purpose of electing members of its executive committees, and other governing bodies.”
Based on the provision, the Baraje faction also claimed that since the NEC of the PDP ratified the conduct of the 2013 national convention in its meeting of August 22, and the congress took place nine days after the NEC meeting on August 31, the party has run afoul of the required 21-day notice required to inform INEC about the exercise.
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O TI SE O!
Baba O TI SE O!!!!!!

Did I not tell y'awwwwwl that the DAFTEST NIGERIANS ARE FROM THE SOUTH-SOUTH?

I laugh anytime I read or hear other Nigerians call ABOKI man illiterate!!!

Let the games begin!

It's getting messier....

The factions are both going for broke and the jugular of each other.

Smart move...am waiting to see how the other factions would respond to this.....by the way,End Time Tinz for P D....*complete the rest*

E don dey happen.
















THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am nt suprised @all...political prostitutes.....

**scratches head****FP tinz

Desperation can make one act crazy. All these just to cajole GEJ out of 2015 election. Hmm Nawa ooo.
I pity Amaechi the only alien among these guyz. I remember how these hypocritical governors schemed the then PDP chairman- Nwodo out simply bcuz he wanted to re-organize the party which invariably will take the control of the party out of the governors. He introduced online membership registration 4 d party. They raise fire n brimstone as dat will take control of d delegates out of their hands. The next thing, they cajoled GEJ into firing him just to appease them. Is good this brouhaha is happening cuz after d storm, loyal party members will stick n build a stronger PDP.

oshyno: Desperation can make one act crazy. All these just to cajole GEJ out of 2015 election. Hmm Nawa ooo.
I pity Amaechi the only alien among these guyz. I remember how these hypocritical governors schemed the then PDP chairman- Nwodo out simply bcuz he wanted to re-organize the party which invariably will take the control of the party out of the governors. He introduced online membership registration 4 d party. They raise fire n brimstone as dat will take control of d delegates out of their hands. The next thing, they cajoled GEJ into firing him just to appease them. Is good this brouhaha is happening cuz after d storm, loyal party members will stick n build a stronger PDP.

BORING!!

So, it has gotten to a stage where PDP members now watch their dirty linen outside. Okay o...we watching and waiting to see our this will end. But seriously, if these are the allegations rocking this party at this time, then the Turkur led PDP is doomed. I know that they are all thieves but why can't he just do the honorable thing for peace to reign by stepping aside? He will forever be appreciated for such action and moreover, the man don old. Wetin hin still dey find self.

All is geared towards making 2015 more eventful. Notice the silence of APC, their traditional unguarded missiles has been on hold this time to forestall re-awakening of the jamboree PDP. GEJ TILL 2019.

3ace: So, it has gotten to a stage where PDP members now watch their dirty linen outside. Okay o...we watching and waiting to see our this will end. But seriously, if these are the allegations rocking this party at this time, then the Turkur led PDP is doomed. I know that they are all thieves but why can't he just do the honorable thing for peace to reign by stepping aside? He will forever be appreciated for such action and moreover, the man don old. Wetin hin still dey find self.

Have you seen any "clean linen" with PDP both inside and outside??

Lagos high court ke? That one jurisdiction only ends in Lagos!! It is a sheer waste of time.The only hig court that can adjudicate on tis issue is the Abuja high court where the party headquarters is and which has jurisdiction across the federation.

baynix:

BORING!!

Take d back seat.

In the end;

Jonathan will be forced to drop 2015 or contest a primary with others

Bamanga tukur and his imposed excos will be asked to leave

blink182: In the end;

Jonathan will be forced to drop 2015 or contest a primary with others

Bamanga tukur and his imposed excos will be asked to leave

Continue dreaming!! It is your inalienable right to dream.Just remember to wake up to reality before it is too late.

Kanwulia: O TI SE O!
Baba O TI SE O!!!!!!

Did I not tell y'awwwwwl that the DAFTEST NIGERIANS ARE FROM THE SOUTH-SOUTH?

I laugh anytime I read or hear other Nigerians call ABOKI man illiterate!!!

Let the games begin!

Fool the DAFTEST Nigerians are in your HOUSEHOLD AND EXTENDED FAMILY.

tmotmo:

Have you seen any "clean linen" with PDP both inside and outside??

gbam!

After the raging storm,what next? Can the ship(PDP) scale through this storm? Would it come out in one pieces or would it sink completely? The coming days would tell.

Race for 2015 is getting messier.

**watching from the sidelines**

By the time these men are through with bros J, he'd realize what a political juvenile he is.

Baraje, OBJ, Atiku and Amaechi are talking Advanced Political Quantum Principles - Jonathan, Abati and Okupe are doing Kindergarten Presidency!

oshyno: Desperation can make one act crazy. All these just to cajole GEJ out of 2015 election. Hmm Nawa ooo.
I pity Amaechi the only alien among these guyz. I remember how these hypocritical governors schemed the then PDP chairman- Nwodo out simply bcuz he wanted to re-organize the party which invariably will take the control of the party out of the governors. He introduced online membership registration 4 d party. They raise fire n brimstone as dat will take control of d delegates out of their hands. The next thing, they cajoled GEJ into firing him just to appease them. Is good this brouhaha is happening cuz after d storm, loyal party members will stick n build a stronger PDP.

Please,please, okwesilieze nwodo never wanted to organize pdp, he came to destroy it which caused many factions in the state branches of the party. Okwesilieze's rremoval is a classical good riddance to bad rubbish.

chai...... sometimes I dey pity GEJ, sometimes I dey blame am for allowing i,diots in the name of praise singers abi special advisers to ruin things for him....... above all shepopo follow make this matter serious so.

If they filed this petition at lagos high court, then the lawyer that filed it needs to be debarred.the court lacks the locus stanfi to proceed with the hearing

Lol.
Whoever expects that to happen is a moronn.

omenka: By the time these men are through with bros J, he'd realize what a political juvenile he is.

This is the bottom line. We can all get as emotional or as biased as we want. Ultimately, there are stages towards 2015 which involves stakeholders alone in the process that churns up candidates for Political Parties.

Many fans of GEJ can come here daily to rant as rabidly as they want but when all is said and done, and validating the notion that "democracy is a game of numbers", it will become clear Blink182 succinctly gets it right with his utterance below. I.e the choice before GEJ is that he forgets 2015 or face a primaries he will lose humiliatingly. For sensible and pragmatic folks, it is over for GEJ mainly because of his original treachery and what he sought to do to uphold that treachery. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive".

That is why, with all the pseudo-victories of GEJ celebrated by his sycophants on NL, I have always insisted that GEJ should gain the PDP ticket and then we can talk. I stated this confidently because I know that, beyond the lies, GEJ has very scant support within the PDP itself because of how it is obvious to all members, from all corners of Nigeria, that he is a sit-tight President willing to destroy what stakeholders gain from just to get his own way. In a Party of the biggest and most desperate disciples of self-preservation, GEJ was always going to lose with his antics of trying to be the lone man standing after all others have been vanquished.

Jonathan will be forced to drop 2015 or contest a primary with others

Bamanga tukur and his imposed excos will be asked to leave