The peace process initiated by a committee of elders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party can safely be said to be either on life support or dead.

This followed Monday’s decision by the Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the party to call the bluff of the Abubakar Baraje-led group by placing the group’s leading figures on suspension.

In the largely unexpected and unprecedented move, Tukur announced the suspension of the factional Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje and its Secretary Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, its deputy National Chairman, Sam Sam Jaja and Ambassador Kazaure who are considered pivotal to the operations of the group of aggrieved members.

Before Monday’s decision, the Tukur-led PDP had secured a court judgment declaring the Baraje-led faction of the party an illegal entity.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, had enjoined the security services to treat any member of the faction parading himself/ herself as a parallel official of the party as a criminal.

This happened before an Appeal Court in Abuja delivered a judgment in a suit filed by Oyinlola challenging his ouster as the party’s National Secretary.

Most political analysts failed to see the suspension of Baraje, Oyinlola and others coming largely because an Abuja Court of Appeal on Thursday last week reinstated Oyinlola as the party’s National Secretary.

Emboldened by this court decision, the aggrieved members of the party under the aegis of nPDP continued to function as a faction of the PDP.

Six out of the seven aggrieved PDP governors and the leadership of the outlawed nPDP met in Abuja, on Sunday night to deliberate on the Oyinlola’s victory which was considered a collective victory and chart a new course for their struggle.

One of the decisions reached after more than five hours of deliberations was a call for the immediate implementation of the court judgment reinstating Oyinlola.

Little did they know that an earlier claim by Chief Olisa Metuh that the party was yet to receive a copy of the said court judgment or any court order for Oyinlola’s reinstatement was a prelude to the suspension of some of their key members.

Governor Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers State is still serving out his indefinite suspension from the party.

Monday’s suspension order obviously took members of the aggrieved faction of the party off guard. Its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze said, “You see, the problem we are having with Tukur and his National Working Committee is that they lack common understanding of the PDP constitution.

“This is an abuse of the judiciary and the Nigeria constitution on fair hearing and most importantly, the PDP constitution of 2009 as amended Article 21 section 9 which states: ‘Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution relating to discipline, no executive committee at any level except NEC shall entertain any question of discipline as may relate or concern…”

Apart from those just suspended, six aggrieved governors on the party platform namely: Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) have continued to lead the revolt against Tukur’s leadership style.

They argue that Tukur’s style of administration has destroyed the cohesion the party once enjoyed.

It may be recalled that The PUNCH had in its Friday, November 8 edition exclusively reported that the party’s peace moves had hit a dead end.

The story entitled: “PDP peace moves hit a dead end”, which was sourced from a reliable source in the Presidency predicted correctly that the President was no longer favourably disposed to further discussions with the aggrieved governors and members of the faction.

It is now clear that the Tukur-led executive of the PDP, which still enjoys the support of the President, has opted to go for broke. It is left for aggrieved members of the party to prepare an appropriate response.


http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-crisis-now-the-peace-process-is-dead/

Why cant this Tinubu Punch leave the PDP alone to solve its problems? Why is Tinubu Punch taking panadol for the headache of PDP?
Why is Tinubu Punch hell-bent on calling Bamanga a leader of a faction of PDP even after the courts and INEC has stated categorically that there is only one PDP led by Bamanga Tukur? Is Tinubu Punch now a lawless organisation? Or is the newspaper blinded by the political ambition of its master, Tinubu?

Sincere 9gerian: Why cant this Tinubu Punch leave the PDP alone to solve its problems? Why is Tinubu Punch taking panadol for the headache of PDP?
Why is Tinubu Punch hell-bent on calling Bamanga a leader of a faction of PDP even after the courts and INEC has stated categorically that there is only one PDP led by Bamanga Tukur? Is Tinubu Punch now a lawless organisation? Or is the newspaper blinded by the political ambition of its master, Tinubu?

Are u asking why?It's simply 'cos the peace process is dead and hence,the war continues.
All I know is that PDP +APC=Corrupt politicians.

Sincere 9gerian: Why cant this Tinubu Punch leave the PDP alone to solve its problems? Why is Tinubu Punch taking panadol for the headache of PDP?
Why is Tinubu Punch hell-bent on calling Bamanga a leader of a faction of PDP even after the courts and INEC has stated categorically that there is only one PDP led by Bamanga Tukur? Is Tinubu Punch now a lawless organisation? Or is the newspaper blinded by the political ambition of its master, Tinubu?

You've never been known to be objective,so its not surprising you tend to leave the main issues to pursue shadows

Deal with the facts of the matter and leave whoever is the publisher of a Newspaper alone

Though its not surprising that you will keep misinforming people that Tinubu owns The Punch,for your information The Punch Newspaper Group is owned by The Aboderins. I don't expect you to know that sha since you reside in Enugu

This is purely advance politics, the power belongs to the people. Good-luck Jonathan is not politically inclined as he does not have the capacity to understand the value of honesty in a diversified politics. He was elected as president but he has chosen to be commander of corruption and abused his mandate. I think president Jonathan should know what's going on around him now, he only needs to do things right for his people back home, because the game is over for him, it's now clear that he has to go home in 2015.

What people are failing to realize is that bamanga tukur and gej don't even want these so called new pdp back . This may finally nail the coffin on the political powers of some people in the pdp who believed and believes that they can always get whatever they want from gej by threatening him and by confrontational means

How long shall we continue to keep stale food in the fridge? As soon I heard of the judgement reinstating oyinlola, I knew the next step would be for him to be suspended. These rebels can never be allowed to operate from within, GEJ has learned his lesson via the Jang conspiracy - the rebels can not be trusted and they should not be allowed to come close. By the time this useless lot are dealt with, they would think the rapture happened. GEJ the political neophyte like some would call him has got the ruthlessness of obasanjo but his is in a subtle way. I like the way he is handling this

Who be d master now? The illegal PDP guys are still so dazed as to the new twist that they have not said anything. Me I just dey observe how GEJ quietly de put d renegades in deir places. Why re d APC guys always vexed when PDP throw punch @ d illegals?

Feee diii feeeee - fouwa to d feeefle