oxford: let the so called new pdp cry from now till 2019 if they like. Thats their own cup of tea. Transformation even in power blogs has come to stay. Power has changed hands but the reality hasnt dawn on some people yet.

Tukur is going nowhere.
Obj and his boys should come up with another game, this one has failed big time
Mark cant join the stup!d gang
GEJ will definately contest [size=14pt]win[/size] 2015 polls. No jupita can intimidate us.
GEJ does not need the vote of every nigerian. Even if power supply is 24/7 some people can still not see it.

They failed with boko haram, they failed with impeachment threats, they failed by pushing Amaechi against his own brother......how do they think that they can win with ordinary workout?
They are all dreamers.
If they are serious, let them go and occupy WADATA HOUSE.

Joke of d century...OKPOKPOWURU I of idoma land is unshakable..He is from d minority group,yet He is ontop of his game as far as politics is concerned...

....and the titanic is all going down...

lertee: As long as it is democracy,Nigeria may never get it right.
All the political parties are worse lots,non is better than the other.
If they like to kill one another,that is their own cup of tea.
They have abandoned the masses so there's no point pitying any of them. Awon oniranu

Sweet lady you've got brain and beauty rolled into one body..

Game plan, strategy, manouvering,scheming,politiking, backlashing, backstabbing, what else can we use to describe what pdp is experiencing, but if it is going to help the masses of Niaja, may God scatter their renconcilliation moves. Amen

Goddex:

I hear Atiku co-owns Vanguard Newspaper. Besides, you would expect all such grandstanding and propaganda especially from the break away group. They are the same people behind this piece of propaganda.

Also BOKO HARAM sponsors.They have seen that, BOKO HARAM is becoming a history,and they have conceived another dirty plot that will fail them woefully.Big shame on those northern( the so called "BORN TO RULE" ) power hungers,

pharmo25: [b][/b]
BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU, Abuja, IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI & DAPO AKINREFON
CRISIS rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seems to be taking a different dimension following the allegation that some Senators who have identified with the Alhaji Kawu Baraje have commenced consultations and lobby to unseat the Senate president, David Mark.

Also to go with the senate president if the plot succeeds when Senate reconvenes after the vacation on September 17, 2013 was the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu who was accused of working with the Tukur faction and had tried to ensure that senators from the South East remained with the faction.

Meantime, the PDP Senators may have emergency session on Tuesday to deliberate on the crisis in the party and take a position.

Informed sources told Saturday Vanguard that Senators who have identified with the new PDP who are said to be the arrowheads of the plot to remove all Tukur’s loyalists in the National Assembly may not have problems with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, the Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha may be affected if he refuses to identify with the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led faction.

Saturday Vanguard investigations revealed that about three Senators from the North Central zone have embarked on intensive lobby to take over Senate President’s position in the event the Baraje-led faction of the PDP decides to move against him for not recognizing the new factional National Chairman of the party.

According to the investigation, the three Senators had occupied sensitive positions in their states, in PDP and in union activities and are highly reckoned with in the upper legislative chambers.

Already about 30 senators are said to have backed the Baraje-led faction while a good number of members of the House of Representatives have also expressed their support and loyalty to the new PDP factional helmsman.

A source privy to the alleged plot told Saturday Vanguard that if Mark and his principal officers elected on the platform of PDP did not recognize Baraje-led group, there would be alliance of the members of the nPDP with the opposition members of the senate to effect the change.

A senator who is in the Baraje-led faction that spoke to Saturday Vanguard on condition of anonymity said that the senate would be meeting on Tuesday to take decision on the threat made by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to declare vacant seats of senators opposed to him.

The senator who said that they had been advised not to join issues with Alhaji Tukur while reacting to the threat said, “the senators said that they won’t say anything until they meet. Let him (Tukur) do it now, why is he saying it, if he has the power he should do it.

“Bamanga Tukur is irrelevant right now to be very honest with you. What he is saying doesn’t mean anything. The country has moved beyond him, the issues are beyond Bamanga, he is totally irrelevant.

“The only thing that he has done is just to pour fuel on a raging fire it does not affect anything except to make the flame burn brighter, but when the senate group meets, they will take a decision. We are not in his faction any way, he should read the constitution. I know they (senate) will be meeting on Tuesday.”

Attempts made to confirm the meeting of the PDP senators from the Senate Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe could not yield any result as his mobile phone was switched off while the text message sent to him was not replied as at press time.

However, a Chieftain and convener of the nPDP Stakeholders Forum, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere told Vanguard that “The first victim of intra-party squabble will be David Mark because he has been sitting on the fence and hobnobbing with Bamanga Tukur at night.

“You can’t be hiding for ever, if he does not recognize Baraje, he will lose his position. In the new PDP, we have confirmed senators that have pledged loyalty to Baraje. With the support of the APC (All Progressives Congress) Senators, we will form the majority to impeach Mark.”

Ikenga Ugochinyere further said that the Senate President and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu would be removed the same time, if Ekweremadu refuses to pledge loyalty to the Baraje-led faction adding, “in the new PDP, there is discipline. But I can assure you that there are many PDP Senators that want to be Senate President.”

He, however, said that despite the lobby for Senate President Position, “We have respect for Mark, but he has to be careful if not, the respect will be withdrawn.”

He said that the nPDP has no problem with the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal but pointing out that “if the Deputy Speaker Hon. Emeka Ihedioha does not support Baraje he will go.”

Ugochinyere said that what the senate needed to effect a change was about 56 senators and that with 30 of them that had expressed their support for Baraje, it was not going to be difficult to get the support of senators elected on the platform of opposition political parties.

On Tukur, he said, “Tukur is already blocking the chances of resolving this matter, this declaration of war is basically a smokescreen to hang on to office because he wants to draw a war, he is scared of peace negotiation which the outcome will be the termination of his deplored unlawful regime and again a fresh unity convention that will create enabling environment.

“So he will prefer to sink the party  to allow peace to prevail but yesterday’s comment (threat to declare vacant seats of senators opposed to him), I must tell you my brother is one of the things I keep saying that shows that Tukur is not in tune with what is on the ground.

“If Tukur is intelligent, he would have read the provisions of the 1999 constitution before boasting that he would declare any body’s seat vacant, under section 68 (1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, the constitution stipulated grounds under which someone’s seat should be declared vacant,” he stated.

Tukur’s faction moves to restrain Atiku, Baraje, others

The internal crisis currently tearing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, apart, worsened yesterday, as a faction of the party loyal to its embattled chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, applied for a restraining order against the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and chairman of the “New PDP”, Kawu Baraje.

In an ex-parte application they filed before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court yesterday, the plaintiffs, urged the court to also restrain the national secretary of the “New PDP”, Prince Olagunsoye Onyinola and its deputy national chairman, Dr Sam Jaja, from parading themselves as national executives of the PDP.

Equally joined as a respondent in the application which was moved before Justice E. Chukwu, yesterday, was the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Nevertheless, the judge refused to grant the ex-parte application yesterday, even as he directed counsel to the plaintiffs, Chief Tochukwu Onwugbufor, SAN, to go back and put all the respondents on notice, saying they should be served the court processes via substituted means.

Before adjourning till September 12 to hear the motion on notice, Justice Chukwu, ordered that parties should maintain status quo ante bellum pending the determination of the suit.

According to the Judge, “Although I am not afraid of granting an ex-parte application especially when it is obvious of causing anarchy, however, I owe a duty to maintain a balance. In the instant matter, what I want to do is order that the respondents are put on notice.”

It will be recalled that the Tukur led faction of the party had earlier prayed the same high court to hand Baraje, Onyinola and Jaja, one year jail term each, over their complicity in alleged criminal contempt of a subsisting court order.

Placing reliance on Order 35 of the Federal High Court Rules 2009, the party, insisted that the three respondents deserved to be committed to prison for allegedly violating a judgment of the high court delivered on January 11, 2013.

The said judgment had nullified Oyinlola’s candidacy as a nominee of the South-west zonal chapter of the PDP.

Consequently, the court ,  declared Oyinlola’s subsequent election to the office of national secretary at the national convention of the party held in March last year, as invalid, null and void by reason of another court order which nullified the South-west zonal congress from which Oyinlola emerged.

We cannot afford a Nigerian Spring—Bode George

FORMER Deputy National Chairman, South, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George has advised the warring parties in the PDP to resolve the lingering crisis within the PDP in the interest of the country saying “we cannot afford a Nigeria Spring”.

Addressing party leaders, in Lagos yesterday, the party chieftain, who appealed for calm among the warring factions, said the elders of the party are in the process of resolving PDP crisis.

George also admonished the party in Lagos state to pass a vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan and endorse the party’s mini convention held recently in Abuja.

He said “I want to request here and now that our leaders should pass an emphatic vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan who is the national leader of our party and the symbol of our nation’s unity and great possibilities. Equally, I am requesting that our leaders should also endorse the last mini convention of 2013 as the best that our party has ever had in the history of our great party.”

The party chieftain said resolving the crisis would be the interest of the party.

He said : “let us move away from tension and acrimony. Let us disagree with tempered and peaceful resolve. Let us debate every contentious issue with maturity, with discipline, with friendship and patriotic idealism. And most importantly, even  as we disagree and patch up our differences, as we tussle and shout in genuine debate, we must in the end be united in one solid reality that the government at the centre is a product of all our collective efforts. The government at the centre belongs to us all as PDP members and as citizens of this nation”.

In addition, he said, “let us support and strengthen our party and our government, that is the way of survival. Hat is the way of progress and it shall be well with Nigeria”

Also, the Lagos state chapter of the PDP,  threw its weight behind the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur- led  party.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/senators-begin-lobby-for-marks-seat/

68. (1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -
(a) he becomes a member of another legislative house.
(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member;
(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Nigeria;
(d) he becomes President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy Governor or a Minister of the Government of the Federation or a Commissioner of the Government of a State or a Special Adviser.
(e) save as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution, he becomes a member of a commission or other body established by this Constitution or by any other law.
(f) without just cause he is absent from meetings of the House of which he is a member for a period amounting in the aggregate to more than one-third of the total number of days during which the House meets in any one year;
(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;
Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or
(h) the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 69 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of that member.
(2) The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall give effect to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, so however that the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a member shall first present evidence satisfactory to the House concerned that any of the provisions of that subsection has become applicable in respect of that member.
(3) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall be deemed to be absent without just cause from a meeting of the House of which he is a member, unless the person presiding certifies in writing that he is satisfied that the absence of the member from the meeting was for a just cause.
69. A member of the Senate or of the House Representatives may be recalled as such a member if -
(a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission a petition in that behalf signed by more than one-half of the persons registered to vote in that member's constituency alleging their loss of confidence in that member; and
(b) the petition is thereafter, in a referendum conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission within ninety days of the date of receipt of the petition, approved by a simple majority of the votes of the persons registered to vote in that member's constituency.

The Implication of 68(1)is that if INEC recognises the old PDP as the autentic PDP the senators & Reps of the New PDP automatically loose their seats in the House[b][/b]

Guseh: jst coming back 4rm my 3days suspension on dis section.
Well its a good xperience,
Congratulating myself.

End time comment.

Our leaders, d reflection of d society. See d squabbles, plots, conntroversies, conspiracies, dirtiness! Etc. I weep. Even Bode George is coming out to be a peacemaker

Embarrassing moment for PDP Politicians.

figment232: 68.

The Implication of 68(1)is that if INEC recognises the old PDP as the autentic PDP the senators & Reps of the New PDP automatically loose their seats in the House

Which part of the section you posted leads you to the foregoing conclusion?

Did you read this part:

(1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -
(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;
Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored;

That is all that matters. That section has nothing to do with recognition of faction by INEC Chairman. Nobody's seat will (or can be) declared vacant. They are still in PDP they have not left. Even if they now leave PDP to join or form other parties (which I believe is one of the next move in this political chess game), their seat cannot not be declared vacant as they have made sure that the PDP is divided and it is now common knowledge. It was a masterstroke that caught team Tukur flatfooted.

We are eagerly awaiting the next move in the chess game. Tukur team are now on the defensive and any wrong move could lead to PDP loss of national assembly leadership.

Well, if Bode George is still relevant in politics with same PDP, then you need no one to tell you that PDP is finished/
How come an EX Convict is the South West leader?

Mr. Aladin:
Nawao Naija Where are We Going

If This News Is True Then I dnt think they really know who David Mark is, i like him because he is very intelligent and trikish

Well dis one na real sign Of








E.N.D T.I.M.E T.H.I.N.G.S

david mark is nothing,once they get the required numbers of senators to effect a leadership change,he is gone,he is merely first among equals.ur use of english,shows u are a mediocre,what is trikish?

This Northern fools will start a fght that will consume them.Idiots.

oshyno: And all these just to unseat GEJ.Funny enough non of these canvassing regime change has accused GEj of non performance.

They just want to destablize the transformation that is going on in the country. Evil people led by OBJ who could not give Nigeria electricity in 8 yrs tenure.

Ikenga Ugochinyere

Why do these people easy become a tool of destruction?

This is nigeria not a particular man and if you decide to plegde loyalty to a man means we the masses are in trouble because we cannot move except a particular man says move which is not still the voice of the president. How long shall we continue like this in nigeria. God in you i trust and lax hold of my future.

babakb: pardon me guys for derailing this thread, i grew up with hunger, anger, disappointment, embarrassment, rags,harassment, bad friends and prostitutes, very bad public primary and secondary schools, trekking, broken home but naturally i have a very sharp brain though because of the factors above i didn't realize it until i got to Tertiary institution.
and now my story is turning around, i am going from rags to riches, the people who despised me before now use me as a role model for their kids, i am becoming one of the blazing stars of my generation, i am intelligent, physically strong, brave, outspoken, tolerant, compassionate, entrepreneurial, men i am too sure of myself, i rest my case until you read about me in the media.

How did you go from rags to riches,tell us the full story.

Brimmie: Ds Scallywags Nor Just Get Our Time Aswear!!

Na To "Sweep" Them Remain!!

BTW Dat Albino Morafucker Banned Me Cos END TIME IS NEAR

the mumu banned me too

Guseh: jst coming back 4rm my 3days suspension on dis section.
Well its a good xperience,
Congratulating myself.

my broda, me too.

These people have no focus at all. They are just looking for power and money for their pockets.

If they were bold enough, why did they not just go ahead to register their new party instead of new PDP

babakb: pardon me guys for derailing this thread, i grew up with hunger, anger, disappointment, embarrassment, rags,harassment, bad friends and prostitutes, very bad public primary and secondary schools, trekking, broken home but naturally i have a very sharp brain though because of the factors above i didn't realize it until i got to Tertiary institution.
and now my story is turning around, i am going from rags to riches, the people who despised me before now use me as a role model for their kids, i am becoming one of the blazing stars of my generation, i am intelligent, physically strong, brave, outspoken, tolerant, compassionate, entrepreneurial, men i am too sure of myself, i rest my case until you read about me in the media.

Bro am happy for u. Just don't b clueless when you become president.

utumunta: Propaganda evrywher. These people don't know who Senator Mark is. He might be a paper weight politician in his native agrarian but not as a federal politician.
The PDP senators that want his seat are;
1. Danjuma Goje- Disqualified cos he is a first time senator.
2. Bukola Saraki- same reason.
3. Abdullahi adamu- same reason.

In the event Mark goes down(which is impossible), he'd plant a strong loyalist like Senator Smart Adeyemi. Mark commands respect & loyalty in the senate cos of the way he treats his colleagues equally & with respect.

danjuma goje is from NE and not NC ,the position wud eventually be given to saraki.