Breakaway PDP: Abacha days are back
It started like a joke. After the State
Governors elected their leader, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers
State, in a vote of 19 to 16, defeating Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau State to
retain his position as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), PDP
under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and their collaborators in government preferred the
defeated candidate.
They improved on this when they engineered five members of
the Rivers State House of Assembly to attempt to impeach the Speaker, Rt. Hon.
Dan Amaechree, in a House of 32 members with the intention of reconvening few
hours later to impeach the Governor. If not for the swift intervention of the
National Assembly, they might have succeeded in achieving their devilish aim
without minding the consequences.
These enemies of democracy did not stop
there; they organised and stoned visiting Northern Governors on a solidarity
visit to their Rivers State counterpart, not minding the consequences.
They went ahead to illegally suspend a
sitting Governor (Rt. Hon. Amaechi) against the spirit of the PDP Constitution,
soon following it with the suspension of Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto
State for not picking the calls of the tyrannical National Chairman of the
party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. As if this was not enough, they went ahead to
suspend Senator Andy Uba for winning the Anambra State PDP Governorship
Primaries just because they preferred another aspirant. And then from nowhere
they suspended PDP’s former National Vice Chairman, Dr. Sam Jaja!
Not yet satisfied, these enemies of
democracy had the guts to remove the names of Governor Murtala Nyako and that
of one of the founders of PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, from the
delegates list of Adamawa State for their failed Special National Convention.
Haba! What type of politics is this? And these people still want us at our ages
to keep quiet and allow them to shave our heads while we do nothing! God
forbid!!
Against the spirit of the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that clearly stipulates freedom of
association for Nigerians – even the freedom of factionalisation of a
political party as stated by the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), our people are being hounded in various states of the Federation. In
flagrant and outright breach of the Constitution and abuse of the rule of law,
today our National Secretariat remains sealed by the Police. To add insult to
our injury, our Rivers State Secretariat just opened for business has also been
sealed by the Police, who claim to be acting on orders from above. What is
more, the Police also last night barred Gov. Amaechi and his guests (about
120 mainly former Speakers in the country) from entering the Governor’s
Residence through the private gate of the state Government House, Port
Harcourt. And we still claim that we are in a democratic society! Surely, even
the days of Abacha were not like this!
Indeed, General Sani Abacha must be
lamenting in his grave that Nigerians wrongly abused him considering the high
degree of impunities being encouraged in a democratic set up, with the Police
being used as a tool to haunt political opponents.
We are however consoled that while the
G34 that gave birth to PDP was born during the dark days of Abacha, today a new
PDP is being given birth to and is determined to legally and constitutionally
fight these impunities being perpetrated by false democrats in our country.
The removal of our candidates from
the Federal Executive Council (FEC)
No matter the flimsy excuses being given
by the Federal Government over the sack of nine of our candidates from the
Federal Executive Council (FEC), the truth of the matter is that these innocent
Ministers were sacked because they were either nominated by us or sympathetic
to our cause.
We are aware that these Ministers had
been under surveillance and denied the necessary tools to work with – in short;
they were programmed to fail immediately they were indentified with us. Sadly,
these innocent Ministers have been sacked while the most corrupt Ministers
whose atrocious activities are well known to Nigerians are retained. The most
pitiable case of these sacked Ministers is that of our mother, the Minister of
Housing, Ms Amal Pepple, whose crime was approaching Mr. President to plead
with him, even kneeling down to beg him to forgive Gov. Amaechi for whatever
sins he is assumed to have committed against him.
We wish to assure these victimised
Ministers that their travails are temporary. They have nothing to be ashamed
of; their fate is in the hands of God and their future is very bright.
Therefore, rather than being sad, they should count themselves lucky for being
part of the struggle to salvage our party and country from the hands of
opportunists who are using a political party which they do not know how it was
formed to torment and haunt the founders of the party and their supporters.
We urge former Heads of State, Religious
Leaders, Our Royal Fathers, Civil Society Activists and all men of goodwill to
intervene before these misguided elements plunge this Nation into anarchy. This
Country belongs to all of us and we can no longer sit and watch an over
ambitious cabal intoxicated by power brazenly inflict needless pain on us on a
daily basis.
We urge our supporters to continue to
exercise patience and avoid the temptation to meet force with force so as not
to play into the hands of our enemies. We also urge all Nigerians to intensify
prayers for God to touch the hearts of our leaders so that these dark days of
General Abacha during which people are haunted for expressing their views may
be cut short
Long
live PDP!
Long live Nigeria!!!
Chief
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
National
Publicity Secretary, PDP
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