It appears that the "owners" of the PDP are not smiling with the "usurping upstarts" who thought Installing Tukur and Anenih now meant they controlled the Party. Superb Nollywood drama for neutrals. Choi, a whole 'anointed' disciple of the "almighty" President threatened with jail as if he is a bank clerical worker. We dey laff

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/pdp-splitsville-baraje-faction-threatens-bamanga-tukur-jail

PDP Splitsville: Baraje Faction Threatens Bamanga Tukur With Jail
Posted: September 5, 2013 - 20:24


"Aboki" Atiku and the boys are not smiling at all !!!!

By SaharaReporters, New York
The New PDP, under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, has asked its lawyers to press contempt charges against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for flouting the orders of a Lagos High Court which asked both sides to maintain the status quo pending the resolution of the case before it on who should lead the party.

A statement issued last night by the National Secretary of the Baraje-PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, condemned the press conference addressed by Tukur in Abuja on Wednesday during which he threatened to sack members of the National Assembly who have declared support for it, and arrest its officers.

Recalling the instructions of the court, Oyinlola said his faction would ask the court to commit Tukur to jail for his disdain for the law and the judicial system.

"We have always been saying it that Tukur represents everything that must not be seen in a democratic organization,” he stressed. “His statement demonstrates not just impunity but also lawlessness and crass ignorance of the tenets of the law and democratic ethos.”

Oyinlola said Tukur displayed his disdain for law and order with his threat to order the arrest of law abiding persons in a democracy.

“We ask what powers he has under our laws to make that statement and what gave him the impression that Nigeria has become a police state where impunity reigns and citizens can be arrested at the whim of any power drunk tzar. Fortunately, our country is a democracy under the rule of law and not under the rule of man. The police and our other security agencies cannot be used to further such agenda as being nurtured in the dictatorial mind of Tukur.”

He asserted that only an ignorant person would threaten to sack elected Senators and Representatives for staying on the side of truth, justice and fairness, reminding Tukur that members of the National Assembly were elected by the people of Nigeria and are not his appointees whom he can dismiss like the minions in his private residence.

On Tukur’s reference to the Baraje-led leadership of the PDP as “impostors,” Oyinlola asked if Tukur does not know that the endorsement of their faction’s cause by elected representatives of the people across all tiers of government has vindicated their position that what they represent in the party today is what the people want.

“We challenge him to call out those who are with him in his clear journey to perdition even as we add that Tukur should come to terms with the reality of the end of his reign of terror, impunity, dictatorship and lawlessness in our party."

Yeah!

I guess the Old man has gone senile. He needs a reminder that this is democrazy with rule of laws. I hope he can even say our National Anthem well.

I like this. I need sauce please, this yam is too dry

The battlefield is becoming hotter! ...waiting to see which faction bows to the other.

Nna men!
Awon boys no dey joke oo.

Impeachment in the offing??
Yes?? No??

berem: The battlefield is becoming hotter! ...waiting to see which faction bows to the other.

There's no battle yet. People are just declaring where they stand. Actions will commence from June 2014, except that greedy people have shown their weak hands too soon. When TEAM JONA emerges, you must be impressed.

ckkris: There's no battle yet. People are just declaring where they stand. Actions will commence from June 2014, except that greedy people have shown their weak hands too soon. When TEAM JONA emerges, you must be impressed.

Dude, are you for real? Why, if "there's no battle yet", did GEJ orchestrate the sack of a whole strata of PDP officials to ensure Anenih emerged BOT chairman after Ali, a last minute entrant, had carried the day easily to the embarrassment of team GEJ and to the extent they had to declare the Ali win as "deadlocked"?

Were you on Mars to have missed the desperation of GEJ to make 16 greater than 19 in the zeal to defeat Amaechi? How about the attempted Rivers impeachment? Guy, support GEJ but do so with some honesty so that your decency remains clear to fellow forumers.

GEJ initiated aggressive battles against others to actualise an ambition that is doomed in my opinion. He has played all his hand and others were happy to indulge his 'gra gra' secure in the knowledge they had the numbers, sagacity and influence to bring GEJ to his knees any time they want. Enjoy the ride since you appear one of the few who does not appreciate that, when it matters and for determined opposition willing to stay the course against GEJ, 16 is not greater than 19 or 80% (my estimate of the percentage against GEJ in the PDP) is not greater than 20%.

Ha ha ha. They are now even threatening to impeach GEJ. This is comical. After all the chest-beating and braggadocio from the sycophantic fans of GEJ, which some of us warned them against, it is now becoming clear the PDP, as we asserted, is a Northern Party. We dey laff. Fight to the finish.

We will see what GEJ and his chest-beating support base are made of now. The time for empty noise and silly threats is over. Atiku et al have thrown down the gauntlet. We await the response of the "almighty" warlord we were told would stroll to a 2015 win merely because he is President when many of us warned the "owners" of the PDP will show their hand devastatingly when the time is right.

Where are the clannish loudmouths who were previously shouting that "the PDP is the only national Party" merely because their kinsman is a PDP President? Why is the "national spread" of the PDP absent currently as unsmiling "awon boyz" are dealing with GEJ? Oya make una move beyond empty chest beating and go and deal with the "abokis" you claim will not smell power for the next 50 years.

http://www.dailyindependentnig.com/2013/09/2015-jonathan-faces-impeachment-threat/

2015: Jonathan faces impeachment threat
POSTED ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2013


•Mark warns against another civil war

By Habib Aruna (Lagos) and Chinwendu Nnadozie (Minna)



Leaders of the factional group in the troubled ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seem to be consolidating their hold on the party with moves for possible impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan if he refuses to jettison his yet to be declared aspiration to contest the 2015 Presidential poll.

The ‘New PDP,’ as the splinter group is known, it was gathered, has started to compile signatures in both chambers of the National Assembly to move against the President if their conditions for resolution of the crisis currently rocking the party were not met.

Apparently realising their possible superior numerical strength and the fact that the balance of power may have tilted in their favour, the new group is telling the President to either forget his 2015 ambition or get ready for impeachment.

The crack in the ruling party widened on Tuesday when no fewer than 57 members of the party in the House of Representatives declared their support for the splinter group.

The lawmakers made the declaration a day after 22 of their colleagues in the Senate took a similar step.

Even so, sources said on Wednesday that some other lawmakers who would have signed the allegiance document were not in town as the House is on recess.

The sources were sure that those members of the House now on break would endorse the document when they return.

The ‘New PDP’, whose birth was announced on Saturday by its Chairman, Kawu Baraje, originally had in its fold former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and seven state Governors elected on the platform of the crisis-torn party.

The Governors include Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano).

The others are Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

The defecting lawmakers in the House were essentially drawn from the seven states whose Governors led the revolt against the leadership of the ruling party on Saturday.

A top member of the ‘New PDP’ who would want to remain anonymous said going by events of the past five days, the party under the leadership of Bamanga Tukur should know that they were not joking.

“We are tired of meetings upon meetings, the ‘New PDP’ wants the President to come out with a categorical statement that he is no longer interested in contesting for the Presidency in 2015. That is what will soothe the nerves of many of us for now,” the source said.

He continued: “Apart from the pressure on other lawmakers to join the fold, we are also reaching out to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) through their members in the National Assembly to checkmate this abuse of power by those we consider as enemies of democracy.”

Daily Independent reliably gathered that Jonathan had been told by promoters of the splinter group that not only should the National Chairman of the party, Bamanga Tukur, be sacked, the President must honour the alleged agreement with some party chieftains in 2011 to serve only one term or face impeachment.

This development may have reinforced the belief of those who had always said the fight for the soul of the PDP was to deny Jonathan the platform to consummate his yet to be declared second term ambition.

The source further said the planned impeachment move was meant to force him to reconsider his position on 2015.

“You can call it a bargaining chip in the hands of his opponents. But if he is pragmatic enough he would think twice before jumping into the fray. So, the factionalisation of the party was a signal to Jonathan to halt his ambition to run for a second term,” the source said.

“We are demanding that he publicly renounces any ambition to run a second term or face impeachment in the National Assembly. The choice is his.”

At the moment, PDP has 204 members in the House of Representatives, All Progressives Congress (APC) has 137, while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Accord Party have five members each.

The Labour Party has eight, while the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) also has five members.

But with the defection of 57 PDP members to the ‘New PDP’ and more expected to join their ranks, they could combine with the 137 members of the APC to effect a change of leadership in the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

In the Senate, the PDP, before the new faction, had 74 members, APC 33 members and Labour Party, two members.

The power equation in both chambers has changed dramatically with the latest development and some are already calculating that National Assembly leadership may become the first victim of the power play if they act as a stumbling block to the plans of the ‘New PDP.’

And as the crisis within the PDP is getting to a feverish pitch, Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday warned Nigerians, particularly the political class beating the drums of war ahead of the 2015 general elections, to have a change of heart because “Nigeria cannot afford another civil war.”

Speaking when he led other members of the Alumni Association of Course 3 of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) who were in Minna for their Annual General Meeting (AGM) to pay a courtesy call on Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, at the Government House, Minna, Mark reminded all that “war does not build but rather destroys a nation.”

“The strength of Nigeria is in our unity and not in our division, so let us all work together for the unity and progress of this country.

“Wars will do no one any good. The best thing Nigerians as individuals can do to promote peace and live in peace with one another is by disregarding acts that separate us as a people not withstanding tribal, religious and political differences,” the Senate President said.

Speaking against the backdrop of threats to the unity of the country ahead of the 2015 general elections, Mark reminded Nigerians that “the unity of Nigeria is extremely important.”

“We urge Nigerians to ensure peace and not shout wars because when there is no peace there will be no development. I will work for the unity and peace of this country because our strength is in our unity, not in our division; so we must all work for the unity of this country.

“The peace and unity of this country cannot be compromised for anything. We must look at some fundamental issues in this country and we should also not talk about secession again in this country.

“Many lives were wasted in this country in our first attempt at secession, so we are calling on all Nigerians to embrace peace and stop war slogans. There cannot be development without peace and our strength lies in our unity as a nation,” he added.

Where are the sycophants??

Where are the attack dogs and lions??

What deafening silence from the fools...

Akamu and Stew: Where are the sycophants??

Where are the attack dogs and lions??

What deafening silence from the fools...

They cannot show face because reality, not the empty chest beating and idiotic braggadocio they revelled in, is currently 'trending'. Many of us warned them that the PDP was a Northern Party but these chest-beaters, unreasonable as they are, would not accept that.

They started bragging, as if GEJ was a superman who could do everything on his own, that "Aboki will not smell power for the next 50 years". We warned them that this mindset is not only stupid but one destined to lead to bitter defeat. While the North remains a legitimate and numerically significant member of Nigeria, you must give them their dues and include them in all political processes if you wish to succeed. That is basic critical thinking every reasonable adult should be capable of.

Yet those who wished to ethnicise the Presidency quickly made issues about vilifying and alienating a people GEJ could not have become President without. They even spoke as if GEJ single-handedly founded the PDP and could do as he pleased against others. I laughed when clannish fools began, because of GEJ, to shout as if they owned the PDP more than the numerically strong Northerners who remain the spine of the Party. What naivete I thought.

It is certainly good to see these Nairaland sycophants, as some of us stated would happen, silenced after their empty chest-beating noise. No one can get anywhere without forging alliances with others in Nigeria while we remain one Nation. I hope this episode will make that clear to some people who revel in insulting and alienating all others without the basic sense to note that no man/ethnic group is an Island.

Kai, this Gbawe can talk oooo! ***This is Gbawe reporting live for saharareporters*** So the Baraje-led PDP faction will be the headache of Jonathan at this material time when he is busy re-building the party. Many clowns here have forgotten that we still have a whole 2014 beckoning for Jonathan to present his 'New Improved PDP' loyal to him. If the faction are not threatening impeachment, they are threatening jail terms....and this is what Gbawe and co are hyperventilating on, yeye dey smell.

GBAWE, Bruh.. You one of a kind!! Just like Naptu, very intelligent! Me like you sire!!