PDP CRISIS: Tukur Not Ready For Peace - Says Baraje PDP Faction
The Abubakar Baraje faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC, was not ready for peace with the breakaway faction.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Chukwuemeka Eze, on Sunday in Abuja, the Baraje faction said it was amused by the news of the setting up of a disciplinary committee by Mr. Tukur, as the decision would only continue the “witch-hunting” of aggrieved members.
The statement said the decision to set up the disciplinary committee, headed by Umaru Dikko, was sufficient evidence that Mr. Tukur’s PDP was not ready for peace.
“By reviving the so called disciplinary committee at a time when the party leader, His Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan, is busy holding peace meetings with the Baraje-led PDP, shows that he is working at cross purposes with Mr. President,” Mr Eze said.
He said setting up the committee was an anti-party activity which exposes Mr. Tukur’s “hypocrisy and vindicates our stand that he is an obstacle to peace in our great party”.
The new PDP said Mr. Tukur and his NWC members should be the first to appear before the committee for
usurping the office of the National Chairman as according to it, Mr Tukur is not a legal member of the party as he did not revalidate his membership of the party during the 2011 revalidation exercise.
Metuh is mentally sick
Mr. Eze also said the spokesperson of the Bamanga Tukur faction, Olisa Metuh, was “mentally sick”, after Mr Metuh accused the Baraje faction from suffering institutional memory loss.
“Metuh was referring to himself as he succeeded in exposing his ignorance about the party he assumes to be speaking for,” the statement said.
“For him to refer the Baraje-led PDP as people who suffer from institutional memory loss indicates that he needs to visit a mental health specialist for proper evaluation. How can any sound member of PDP describe a party that still has Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of the Federal Republic, as a member as not knowing the history and records of the party?”
Mr Eze said Mr Metuh need be reminded that “Atiku Abubakar apart from being a principal member of the PDP, also recruited both Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Alh. Gambo Jimeta, Senator Silas Zwingina and Chief Joel Madaki, among others, to the party in 1988 through Chief Nat Yaduma”.
“Maybe Metuh may not even know that it was Atiku Abubakar that rented and paid for the present National Secretariat of PDP for three years and paid the working staff salaries for three years. Most of the times those of us who labored and established PDP to its present level laugh when some on lookers like Metuh want to tell us about the history of PDP which was formed when most of them never contemplated joining politics talk less of joining PDP.”
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