The new Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called for immediate appointment of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje as the National Chairman of the party just as it is also demanding the resignation of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the party’s helmsman.

The Baraje-led faction insisted that Tukur was not a registered and card-carrying member of the PDP.

The renegade group said Baraje, who was a former acting national chairman of the party, erroneously handed over to Tukur, thinking he was a member of the party.

In a statement made available to National Mirror yesterday, the new PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Eze, said that the handover would enable Baraje to organise a proper, unified convention that would usher in a duly elected National Working Committee, NWC, of the party to enable the PDP face the business of positioning itself as the ruling party in 2015.

The statement said that the development would also pave the way to restore PDP’s past glory based on the vision of the founding fathers of the party.

According to the aggrieved faction, “Alhaji Tukur was expelled from the PDP in 2006 with nine others following disciplinary action taken against them for anti-party activities. Since then, he has not officially returned to the party.

“All the records at our disposal show that Alhaji Tukur has not followed due process for his readmission into the party. He neither applied for nor obtained the requisite waiver by the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party before offering himself for election into the office of national chairman in 2012. This makes his membership incurably defective and his emergence as PDP’s national chairman null and void and of no effect whatsoever since he is the product of a flawed process.

“Consequently, all the actions he has taken as the chairman of PDP since his purported election in March 2012, including the illegal, contentious convention of August 31, 2013, are null and void and of no effect.”

The breakaway party members said that reliable information available to them from the PDP national secretariat indicates that Tukur was desperately seeking a way out of his predicament and had set about falsifying party records to revalidate his membership through the backdoor.

The PDP faction stated that they were putting Tukur on notice “that this is criminal and that they hope he understands the consequences of his actions.”

The Baraje-led PDP said: “In this regard, Alhaji Tukur’s continued occupation of the office of PDP national chairman is clearly fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional.

“We hereby urge Alhaji Tukur to toe the path of honour and throw in the towel. This is the best option open to.


SOURCE: www.nationalmirroronline.net/new/tukur-plans-to-falsify-party-records-new-pdp/

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