•Governors will kill this party –Iwuanyanwu
From TAIWO AMODU, Abuja
Even as last minute efforts by President Goodluck Jonathan saved the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, from being removed, the last has not been heard on the cold war between him and the governor of his home state, Adamawa, Murtala Nyako, and by extension the PDP Governors Forum.
The Governors Forum is the umbrella association of the 27 governors on the party’s platform, with Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as chairman. Sunday Sun investigation revealed that the intervention of President Jonathan and some members of the party’s Board of Trustees last Wednesday only calmed frayed nerves, the combatants would soon return to the trenches.
Twenty-one out of the 27 governors had met at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, on Wednesday night after the meeting at the Presidential Villa, where President Goodluck Jonathan successfully brokered a peace meeting between members of the PDP and the National Working Committee NWC. In attendance to discuss with PDP governors after the peace meeting at the Presidential Villa was former Osun State governor and National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
A communiqué issued by PDP governors at the end of their meeting, and signed by Rotimi Amaechi, endorsed the position taken on the Adamawa crisis by other members of the PDP’s NWC. According to the communiqué, the governors also “re-affirm their recognition of the Kugama-led executive lawfully elected in March 2012 and endorsed by the national convention.’’
Deputy National Chairman of the party, Dr Sam Jaja, had led nine other members of the party’s NWC into an emergency meeting while their beleaguered chairman was at the Presidential Villa, preparing for the botched Board of Trustees election. At the end of the meeting, Dr Jaja had announced the reinstatement of the Adamawa State chapter of the party executive earlier dissolved by Alhaji Mijinyawa Kugama without Tukur’s knowledge.
While the Adamawa impasse was the immediate cause of the anti-Tukur posturing by the governors, Sunday Sun findings revealed that the PDP governors were not comfortable with his reconciliatory moves to bring back those they viewed as dissidents, who would ultimately challenge their authority as leaders of the party in their respective domain.
A Sunday Sun source declared that even the NWC was divided over Alhaji Tukur’s approach to reconciliation, as they called his attention to the governors’ body language on the issue. “He was ready to call the governors’ bluff.” Tukur’s argument was that every member of the party, whether president, governor or senator is subordinate to the party and the party is supreme.
The governors aren’t comfortable with that. “If you recall, two serving governors, first, the Plateau governor, Jonah Jang, and Abia governor, Theodore Orji, stormed the party’s national secretariat last year to protest Tukur’s reconciliation agenda aimed at prevailing on aggrieved members to return to the party,’’ Sunday Sun source noted.
In a veiled reference to the former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, Governor Jang had told members of the PDP’s NWC not to contemplate bringing back those who left the party to team up with opposition forces to return, but should allow them to stay back to strengthen opposition parties in Plateau.
Abia governor, Theodore Orji, had equally stormed Wadata Plaza last year in company of all serving senators and members of the House of Representatives from Abia State to dissuade the party from allowing Orji Kalu’s return to PDP. But a chieftain of the party and former aspirant for the office of PDP national chairman, Chief Chya Iwuanyanwu, has raised the alarm that the PDP Governors Forum would kill the party and ultimately truncate democracy.
Speaking with Sunday Sun at the weekend, Iwuanyanwu in a wake-up call advised elders of the party to initiate an internal party mechanism to curb what he called excesses of the governors. “There is need for internal mechanism by the party to check the performance of the governors.
“I had already said it in 2008 that the greatest enemy of democracy in this country is the Governors’ Forum; that organization is illegal and should be disbanded. It is a gang up of people with a lot of money, and with money in Nigeria you can do anything. They chose the national chairman, they chose everything, even the president is one of them, the vice-president is one of them. So, the democracy we have today has been hijacked by an organization called the Governors Forum.’’
O! PDP, party of so so confusion. Hopefully the end is meeting you soon.
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our resource cabalization nust be checked, before 2015 there MUST be an internal IMPLOSION in this forum, rotimi amaechi somebody should help me tell this man to guide the niger delta presidency
do not allow yrself to be used against yrself.
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Isrealdo,are you sure?Because I don‘t think so,the niger delta presidency,how childish of you,even Jonathan cannot withstand them talkless of your governors,afterall what does Jonathan has to show?You and your like should be ashamed of yourselfs,think,ok?
@ IBRAHEEM I CAN BET YOU REMOVE JONATHAN FROM THIS DEAD COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA AND PUT HIM AS A PRESIDENT OF GHANA
THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE AMAZED AT HIS ACHIEVEMENT.
OUR NO ONE PROBLEM IS THAT IT MUST ALWAYS BE “IBRAHEEM” OR THE WHOLE COUNTRY MUST COLLAPSE
YOU MUST BE WONDERING HOW WE MANUFACTURED SUICIDE BOMBERS OVERNIGHT SOMETHING THAT WAS BEFORE NOW A TABOO AND ALIEN TO OUR CULTURE
BC SOME NIGERIANS ARE RICHER THAN THE COUNTRY AND CAN DETONATE BOMBS TO MAKE POLITICAL POINT.
SO MY FRIEND WAIT ONE DAY THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD IN AN UNMISTAKABLE TERMS.
PDP will continue to be in a state of pandermoniun, shameless party without vission and socio-economic development.
I dey laugh O….
In 2015 PDP is going to win more state in nigeria, any evil plane to scater pdp wont work.
@Saka. Oh Saka, what a pity. You don’t even realize that u are a victim of PDP’s (Petroleum Deregulation Party)Mal-administration and Economic plunder of our resources. Please, how much is a liter of petrol or kerosine in your place?
The irony is that while PDP ( Petroluem Deregulation Party) governors are after their chairman’s throat, Nigerians as a whole are after the entire party. That umbrella of thieves must be scattered for the good of the Nation. We need change.
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Oga Tukur, pls don’t be in a hurry to forget how Gov. Chime ensured the removal of Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo!
You spoke my mind. These frauds you call politicians in Nigeria never learn. Unfortunately, Chime is now under a spell concocted by who knows…. Just like Okwesilieze Nwodo believes he and his family are the king makers in Enugu State. Infact every person especially the politicians that go by the “Dr” thing must be made to undergo a critical assessment by a london committee to determine the relevance of their Phd’s given the say and manner they conduct their affairs and that of the public’s.
A party that has forced poverty on millions of Nigeria shall never know peace even from indefinite time to indefinite time.This is just the beginning…
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WERE IS GOVERNORS FORUM IN OUR CONSTITUTION. THE LEGISLATORS HAVE TO DISBAND THIS SO CALLED GOVERNORS FORUM.
One does not need a soothsayer to tell one that PDP is in trouble as far as they have wittingly launched this onslaught of misgovernance against peace loving Nigeria. They will kill themselves because of power. The biggest political family in Nigeria.
Yes,PDP is in disarray, but are the opposition parties better off ?. Are they not more confused than the PDP ?. Why in a hurry about the merger plan ?God help Nigeria.
Nigeria will survive. Please follow me pray.
Ya Allah,We ar sinners.Forgived us.N scattttt.This evils PDP.Ya Allah hv mercy on us,Amin,
Who is better?????
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