CRISIS is brewing in the Kogi State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as an interest group has called on three of the 13 aspirants to withdraw from the party’s primary election scheduled to hold on September 3.


The group, under the aegis of Concerned Kogi Professionals, has demanded the withdrawal of Abubakar Ibrahim, who is the son of former governor Ibrahim Idris.

It also called on former governor, Idris Wada and his brother, Musa, to also withdraw from the contest.

Stating reasons for the call on the three aspirants to withdraw from the race, the coordinator of the group, Dr. Tope Atte, cited extended family ties binding the three aspirants together.

This, according to Atteh, could destroy the existing unity in the state chapter should any of the three aspirants emerge winner in the primaries.

Atteh said Idris Wada and Musa Wada are blood brothers with the latter married to one of the daughters of ex-governor Ibrahim Idris. The ex-governor’s biological son, Abubakar, is also in the race.

Atteh had led members of the group to meet the PDP National Secretary Senator Umar Tsauri in his office at the party’s Abuja secretariat yesterday, asking the party to disqualify the three aspirants.


In a statement issued after meeting with Tsauri, the group said unless the three aspirants from the same extended family are forced out of the race, the party was doomed to be defeated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in event that any of them picks the ticket.

The statement said: “There is palpable fear across the leadership and rank and file of our party that if this danger is not confronted and contained before we go into primaries, it may become intractable thereafter and could ignite series of actions and reactions that could lead to the failure of our party at the polls.”

Describing the three aspirants as “extremely mutually antagonistic contestants” from the same extended family, Atteh lamented that the party’s stakeholders and elders have already been fractionalised along three parallel lines.

The group further stated that anyone of the three who wins the primary election would be sabotaged by stakeholders and supporters of the other two contenders.

Although the National Secretary was not available for comments, the PDP national leadership has consistently declared that it would not interfere with any of the processes leading to the emergence of a candidate for the election.

While briefing reporters in his office on Tuesday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated that the constitution of the PDP forbids any member of the NWC, including the National Chairman, from interfering with the process.

Ologbondiyan had clearly directed dissenting groups over the party’s upcoming primary election in Kogi and Bayelsa states to go back to their respective states and iron out their differences.

Source:https://horilines.com/post/crisis-rocks-kogi-pdp-as-three-aspirant-set-to-be-disqualified

Which way PDP?

Ibro political family vs Wada crisis will definitely split Kogi east votes at the primaries.
Fight between godfather and son loading.

I hope Dino will be able to capitalize on this crisis and win the primary.



I see Dino vs Bello laslas

I can't Imagine another 4yrs of this satanic governor.

Who else thought it was Chris Rock in Kogi?

i was like wahhh

Nnamdi Kanu just like others, despite being so foolish and that being so obvious on this his Jubril from Sudan theorem, he has his recruits.
Name it, hard drugs peddling in the Asian countries, they have their recruits.
Internet scamming, they have their recruits.
Faking products, they have their recruits.
Faking drugs at ABA, Idumota they have their recruits
Baby factories proliferation, they have their recruits
Otokoto everywhere
Python will soon dance again
Let them just go for Nigeria to have a breath of fresh air

Africans are just useless.....

Greedy is destroying the continent, selfishness at its peak

Ok

PDP should forget it

Ok
That's how they lost osun election through this primary election
They'll divide the part
I hope they won't regret it after the election

Kogi no get better leader....

Politics is becoming a family affair.

Yahaya Bello and co be like...

Hahahah

Good one pdp

Na wa for my darling state

Zeus76200x:

U no dey tire
People still dey fall for this
You and that bet9ja guy
Why u no kuku do am for yourself and enjoy it
And stupid moderator dey this nairaland ba
Why can't u block this guy
Moderators and this guy are working together

After Rivers, Kogi is the deadliest State in Terms of Politics, there Political atmosphere are always tensed, full of Bitterness, Hatred, and above all Tribal Sentimental

Nawa o.. like Christian won't smell that seat again?

A Yagba man with vote like the size of a mustard seed, asking Igala men to withdraw or there will be trouble

Anyone that wins from PDP is a better candidate

b3llo:
Politics is becoming a family affair.

Politics is becoming a family affair. Abi it is a family affair in Nigeria.
GOD help us

Crisis or no crisis, they will still be defeated by APC.

Igbos keep off this thread. I repeat Igbos keep off this thread.

Or Else

Puzzidick419:

U no dey tire
People still dey fall for this
You and that bet9ja guy
Why u no kuku do am for yourself and enjoy it
And stupid moderator dey this nairaland ba
Why can't u block this guy
Moderators and this guy are working together

They banned them but they keep creating new accounts.

semyman:
Nnamdi Kanu just like others, despite being so foolish and that being so obvious on this his Jubril from Sudan theorem, he has his recruits.
Name it, hard drugs peddling in the Asian countries, they have their recruits.
Internet scamming, they have their recruits.
Faking products, they have their recruits.
Faking drugs at ABA, Idumota they have their recruits
Baby factories proliferation, they have their recruits
Otokoto everywhere
Python will soon dance again
Let them just go for Nigeria to have a breath of fresh air

Bro if Nigeria let Biafra go .in ten years them will be bigger than south Africa it is dangerous to have such neighbor next door

Oga, why na? R u part of this guys?

semyman:
Nnamdi Kanu just like others, despite being so foolish and that being so obvious on this his Jubril from Sudan theorem, he has his recruits.
Name it, hard drugs peddling in the Asian countries, they have their recruits.
Internet scamming, they have their recruits.
Faking products, they have their recruits.
Faking drugs at ABA, Idumota they have their recruits
Baby factories proliferation, they have their recruits
Otokoto everywhere
Python will soon dance again
Let them just go for Nigeria to have a breath of fresh air