₦airaland Forum

ellovee:
you'll soon join the wailing because the intimidating leadership style (military inside agbada) of the current administration will soon knock at the doors of everyone in this country. Mind you, Sen. Dino Malaye, an APC senator have started wailing already.

Forwetinnah:
Now it is wailing. .how come you're not talking about how non partisan the DSS should be? I am a Wailing Wailer, not a Zombie like some people who can't see past their noses

Yomboy4ever:
Ex DG a PDP Member
So what's d big deal?

arewafederation:
Is this how PDP will continue wailing for the next 4 years?

[quote]The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the State Security Service, SSS, to order, and to ensure the agency does not harass electoral officials.

The PDP said the new director general of the SSS, Lawal Daura, had been a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and must be cautioned.

The party made the call in a statement Wednesday.

Full statement:

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party at its meeting on Thursday thoroughly considered a number of very important issues pertaining to the state of affairs in our nation.

The NWC brings to the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to some disturbing development in the polity which, if not nipped in the bud, might significantly affect our democracy and stability as a nation negatively, and that is the growing and unwarranted intrusion of some over-zealous security operatives on issues bordering purely on politics.

In particular, the NWC wishes to draw the attention of the President to the continued intimidation, harassment as well as the hounding, arrest and detention of Electoral Officers and members of election tribunals by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and other PDP states.

The NWC notes that this unfortunate development has been the case since the appointment of the new Director General of the DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, whom we learnt was a critical intelligence stakeholder of the APC as a card-carrying member of that party during the campaigns. This is ungodly and unacceptable.

We do hope that in his new job, the Director General of DSS is not mixing issues on the APC presidential candidate and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, hence the need for Mr. President to rein him in as the development is capable of eroding the cherished independence of the judiciary and the electoral commission, a sine qua non for a virile democracy, which guarantees our unity and stability as a nation.
Similarly, we urge Mr. President to take a critical look at the issue of the appointment of Amina Zakari as Acting Chairman of INEC for which our party has severally raised some salient issues why she is not suitable for that position. It is incontrovertible that Mrs. Zakari by virtue of her blood relationship with Mr. President cannot preside over the affairs of an Independent National Electoral Commission.

Nigeria belongs to all of us irrespective of political, religious and ethnic affiliation and as a responsible political party we shall not fold our hands and watch while our nation drift along dangerous line.

Furthermore, the NWC commends and congratulates the PDP caucuses in the Senate and the House of Representatives on the smooth emergence of the Minority leadership in the National Assembly. We note that the process was without any interferences whatsoever from the leadership of our great party in keeping with the dictates of the independence of the legislature.

Finally, the NWC deliberated on the state of the party in Ekiti State and resolved that it only recognizes the state Exco led by Chief Idowu Faleye. The NWC however summons all critical stakeholders in the party administration in Ekiti State to a meeting with the national leadership on the issues in the state chapter.

barcanista:
Boko Haram are Terrorists not militants!

Omenkata:
#MyFatherShouldGetSomesense
#ToHellWithBuharianArmy!
#iHateBuhari
#ApcIsBokoharam
Elrufai is a midget - Obasanjo

Omenkata:
Hopless bunch of coward rapist Buharian army

I am not doing anything that is income generating per se. I am also, not begging anybody for help.

kamair237:
Media!!!! Media!!!! cooking up stories since 1967...

adonbilivit:
hmmm...coz they are no longer in power right? no one knows 2019 o. when EFCC probes your house when PDP bounces back don't cry to us o

baby124:
Fayose will not mind his business where PDP is now issuing bad checks. LMAO. PDP as a party will self destruct. They are ruthless thieves. Somebody has stolen the rent money.

Mogidi:
Ekiti is PDP 100%, haters do the needful.

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has received a notice to quit from the landlord, asking it to vacate the state party secretariat in Ado Ekiti for failure to pay its rent.

The landlord, a two-term State PDP Chairman and now a member of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Ropo Adesanya, is aggrieved that the ruling party in the state allegedly issued him a dud cheque for the rent.

Power supply to the party secretariat has also been disconnected by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company over unpaid electricity bills.

Adesanya, who was the PDP Chairman for eight years during which Governor Ayodele Fayose won the 2003 governorship election, is asking for N1.5m owed as rent.

Describing the situation as “very embarrassing,” the Acting Chairman of the PDP in the state, Tunde Olatunde, who took over when the Chairman, Idowu Faleye, was purportedly removed, confirmed that the cheque issued to Adesanya was not honoured by the bank.

Faleye, an ally of the governor, purportedly stepped down on May 13 following pressure from members of the State Executive Committee.

Olatunde chairs a faction, which has 14 State Working Committee members and 51 members of SEC, who are the majority and occupying the party secretariat.

He explained that Adesanya had already forwarded a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Etop James, on the alleged issuance of a dud cheque, which he claimed was “stopped for no just cause.”
He said the cash could not be drawn from the party’s account at an old generation bank despite that the account had about N17m.

Olatunde said, “The truth of the matter is that our party has been ejected for not paying our rent by our landlord, Chief Ropo Adesanya, eight-year party chairman and the man that produced Mr. Governor in his first term.

“We are owing the man N1.5m and we issued him a cheque drawn in our account in an old generation Bank that has about N17m at the time we were using it but mysteriously, the cheque was stopped for no just cause.

“Chief Ropo Adesanya has petitioned the Commissioner of Police for issuance of dud cheque and the Police have confirmed that there is money in that account.

“The twist in the story is that Mr. Governor is saying that Adesanya bought the house nearly ten years ago when they sent him (Fayose) on exile.

“In fact, public power supply has been disconnected from the building and we are suffering despite the fact that our party is in power and presently rules in Ekiti.

“This party has been in power for almost one year now, the government has not funded us. The state exco members have not been receiving their honorarium and the activities of the party have been grounded.”

When contacted on Tuesday, the factional Publicity Secretary loyal to the governor, Jackson Adebayo, said, “I’m not aware of that.”

Olatunde said the party would sue the bank for throwing it into disrepute by not honoring the cheque when it had more than enough to pay in the account.

When asked if the SWC had approached the governor to resolve the issue, he said the governor was aware but had not shown interest.

Olatunde stated that the governor had been operating with the Faleye faction at the Government House, a situation he described as “illegal.”

He added that the SWC members would continue to insist that the party was run in accordance with the party’s constitution despite the present predicament.

sammyj:
Thank God for them. However, they should be more constructive in their comment and further move to create association of witch hunters along wit this new association!!!

MosakuAW:
I just laught at you. You quote me to explain 7th or 8th NASS Republic now you change it to 4th Republic and 8th national assembly. You are a confused man. Enjoy your day.

MosakuAW:
Just apologize in shame and say thank you because i just taught you what you ought to have known years back.