Crisis is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party over the choice of
who should occupy some positions in the National Assembly among
its senators.
One of the senators, who spoke with journalists on condition of
anonymity in Abuja on Thursday, said powerful forces in the party
were planning to instal their cronies as principal officers of the
party in the National Assembly.
The party, through its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, had on Wednesday, announced the zoning of the offices to
different zones.
Metuh said that in the Senate, the party has zoned the office of the
Minority Leader to South-South, the position of the Minority Whip
has been moved to North-Central, while the North-East and South-
west will provide the Deputy Minority Leader and Deputy Minority
Whip, respectively.
In the House of Representatives, Metuh said the PDP caucus in the
chamber had already zoned the position of the Minority Leader to
the South-South without informing the party.
He said the party had accepted the decision.
Metuh listed other offices as zoned by the party to include Minority
Whip, which has been taken to the North-West, Deputy Minority
Leader to come from the South-East while the North-East will fill the
position of the Deputy Minority Whip.
Th senator said the zoning had pitched some influential leaders of
the party, including former President Goodluck Jonathan and his
wife, Patience, against the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike
Ekweremadu, as well as the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom
Wike.
The family of the former President was said to be rooting for Sen.
George Sekibo as Minority Leader while both Ekweremadu and Wike
are against such choice.
The immediate-past Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, who is now
senator, Chief Godswill Akpabio, is also said to have shown interest
in the same position.
Akpabio’s ambition is against the Senate Rules on ranking.
The opposition party is expected to bring its decision on the zoning
to the Senate on July 21, when the upper chamber resumes plenary.
A senator from the South-South zone, who spoke with journalists
said that the crisis was “capable of weakening the PDP ahead of its
role as a viable opposition party in the years ahead.”
He said, “We are seeing the All Progressives Congress crisis now,
ours is also in the making because before July 21, if we too don’t
sort ourselves out, we can at best say that what is capable of
weakening the PDP ahead of its role as a viable opposition party in
the years ahead may have been planted.
“We all thought the issue of Senate Minority Leader has been laid to
rest until the DSP(Deputy Senate President) called us for a meeting
in his house where he sort peoples’ opinion on the propriety or
otherwise of selecting Sen. John Eno for the position.
“I think it was from there the former Akwa-Ibom governor got the
feeling that if the matter has to be revisited, then he would take a
shot at it, but he doesn’t know that his ambition is against the rules
of the senate as regards the selection of its Principal Officers.
“Before then, we were all facing the challenge of the suggestion by
the former president and his wife that we should consider Sekibo
who is from Rivers state but the duo of Ekweremadu and Wike
kicked against it.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/nass-officers-election-crisis-brews-in-pdp/

There is a God in Heaven. May God continue to cause confusion anywhere PDP members are gathered.

After sixteen years of leading us aimlessly in the wilderness, God did not only make them lose the elections. Now they are fighting among themselves, even while at the losing corner.

pathetic.

ok

PDP a.k.a wailing wailers? Na them sabi joor.

He he he , thought PDP was perfect and had no in-fighting

Until they fight publicly like APC....till then its just rumour

Punch is looking for "wahala" where non exist, dead on arrival.

Drama in Nigeria .... Freest Administration is Buhari's Administration o.

PDP don fall 4 gutter !!!

matcham matcham

Hahahahahah

WWW.WailingWailers. dazall

It's not new,no one is surprised. Only APC who claim to be saints can be ashamed of their own fighting!

HungerBAD:
There is a God in Heaven. May God continue to cause confusion anywhere PDP members are gathered.

After sixteen years of leading us aimlessly in the wilderness, God did not only make them lose the elections. Now they are fighting among themselves, even while at the losing corner.

pathetic.

The party of WailingWailers should just perish and never resurrect anymore, amen.

Politicians still fighting for their benefits and not for the good of the masses.


While some of the retar.ded masses still fight and argue all the time about the Political Parties they support or hate.