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*As Police invade Sokoto Gov’s lodge venue of meeting
* Lamido, Amaechi, Nyako, Kwankwaso, Aliero, Baraje, Oyinlola, Adamu, Shettima others present
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA— CRISIS rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP took another turn yesterday, as the Police stormed the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja where the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led new PDP, including opposition governors were holding a meeting and chased them out. A few hours before the group assembled at the Sokoto Governor’s lodge, it had cried out that the government had started a clampdown on the businesses of its members as well threatening their lives.
Having been prevented from holding their meeting at the Sokoto Governor’s lodge, members of the group reassembled at the Kano State Governor’s lodge where the meeting eventually held.
The meeting was first of its kind since the Federal High Court upheld the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee as the authentic one as well as the endorsement from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Present at yesterday’s meeting were governors Sule Lamido of Jigawa; Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State; Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano; Murtala Nyako of Adamawa and Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, just as governors Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Aliyu Babangida of Niger were absent.
Also at the meeting were former governor of Kebbi State and ex- FCT minister during late President Umaru Yar’adua’s administration, Senator Adamu Aliero; former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki; former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje; former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; chairman of the group, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje; the group’s Deputy Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja; secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola; PDP National Vice Chairman, North West, Ibrahim Kazaure; Alhaji Kassim Shettima, among others.
There was neither a press briefing nor statement at the end of the meeting, just as the group’s National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze promised that a communique will be issued today.
A source disclosed to Vanguard that the group discussed the Abuja High Court judgement, INEC recognition of Tukur-led PDP, and clampdown on members’ property in Abuja by the government through the Minister of FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed. They were also said to have discussed how to receive new governors who plan to join the group.
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We are endangered — G7 Govs, Baraje
Meanwhile, the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP members had earlier cried out that its members have become endangered species with series of clampdowns on them, their offices and businesses.
The Presidency was also alleged to have concluded arrangements to go after all senators and members of the House of Representatives who are members of the group with the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC under an operation code-named, “Operation Coerce Them Back to Tukur”.
Also as part of clampdown on the members, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar was said to have ordered the immediate withdrawal of security aides attached to former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje (Gombe Central) and former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki (Kwara Central).
A statement signed by the group’s National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka said: “It has become necessary for us to cry out in view of the war declared on the New Peoples Democratic Party (NPDP) and its members by certain agents and henchmen of the Goodluck Jonathan administration who have embarked on a mission to intimidate and overawe us, using various unconstitutional means to achieve their selfish goals.”
Giving a chronicle of experiences of members of the Baraje-led PDP, Eze said: “The past few weeks in particular have witnessed the implementation of a well coordinated and systematic plot to traumatise, annihilate and cripple us economically and politically in flagrant disregard of Chapter IV Section 33 to 45 of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantees our fundamental human rights as Nigerians. A few examples of the excesses of these agents of confusion and enemies of democracy would suffice:
“Contrary to provisions of Chapter IV Sections 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution which guarantee our right as Nigerians to acquire and own property in any part of the country, our National Secretariat and most of our State Secretariats have been sealed up by the Police on the orders of those in power. This is despite the fact that we still have a court case against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and his National Working Committee (NWC). http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/g7-govs-others-chased-npdp-meeting/

slim fit :
What is your point can people stop unnecessary grammar please. Even the queen don't confuse us this much.

what part of it is confusing?

Mrhod: ACN to APC have neva being a democratic party in fact they don't know the meaning of democracy, it is not in their constitution. Luk at what they are doing at local level. Let's vote according to individual n not party bcus all d parties are d side. Judging from what PDP did at Delta bar election.

i concur bro

kel4soft: Same way PDP rigged to win in their control states

am pretty sure pdp would have been able to rig and win the edo guber election but they didnt. Trust me,if Apc wins the presidential election,they wil claim d 36 states and Nigeria will be back to square one

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the southern Nigerian state of Edo on Wednesday in Benin, the capital, rejected the result of the local council election held in Esan North East on 22 October.
Mr Solomon Ogun, the Chairman of Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC), had on Tuesday night announced Mr Sam Oboh, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election.
Rejecting the result, the state PDP Chairman, Mr Dan Orbih, told newsmen that the electoral law allowed only registered political parties to contest elections.
Orbih stressed that only a party which took part in previous elections was legally qualified for a re-run or rescheduled election.
He also alleged that the APC-led government of Edo announced the result of the polls in Benin while the results were still being collated at Uromi.
“By law, only registered parties are allow to participate in elections and only parties that took part in previous elections are also allowed to take part in the re-run or rescheduled election.
“There was no APC at when the local government elections took place across the state on April 20.
“It is also undemocratic to start announcing an election’s result when the results are still being collated,” he said.
Besides, Orbih said that the result announced by the chairman of EDSIEC was totally different from the ones which the presiding and returning officers submitted to the commission.
“The result before us clearly states that the PDP won the election and we are going to stand by the result that was announced in Uromi and not the one announced by the commission’s chairman.
“The Commissioner of Police, State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have the same result as the one we have before us now,’’ he said.
Orbih said: “We are going to publish this actual result so that the whole world will know that the principle of `One-Man, One-Vote’ has clearly been violated in Edo State.
“If we must deepen democracy in Nigeria, we must do the right thing at the right time; it is not an issue between the PDP and APC; it is an issue of democracy.
“We are going to contest the result in court and ensure that Mr John Yakubu, the PDP candidate, is declared the winner of the election and sworn in as the chairman of Esan North East Local Government Council, ” he said.
Orbih, however, appealed to the PDP supporters to remain calm, assuring them that the party would take a legal action to reclaim the mandate. https://m.facebook.com/Iamanedolite?v=feed&_rdr