PDP Press Release: No Deal Yet With President Jonathan • Gov. Akpabio deceiving Nigerians

Sept. 18, 2-013

No Deal Yet With President Jonathan • Gov. Akpabio deceiving Nigerians

The Alhaji Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes
to advise Nigerians to ignore the tissue of lies and propaganda from
the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur faction of the party on the outcome of our
meeting with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Presidential
Villa last Sunday, 15th September, 2013.

We have read various misleading accounts of what transpired at that
meeting between our progressive Governors – Gov Kwankwaso of Kano, Gov
Wamakko of Sokoto, Gov Amaechi of Rivers, Gov Babangida Aliyu of
Niger, Gov, Nyako of Adamawa, Gov Ahmed of Kwara and Gov Lamido of
Jigawa with President Jonathan on how to resolve the self-inflicted
crisis in our party.

We wish to specifically urge Nigerians and our supporters to ignore
the concocted tales of Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Chairman
of PDP Governors Forum. Akpabio lied by claiming that we have accepted
that President Jonathan should contest the 2015 presidential election
and that most of our demands are being met. The fact of the case is
that no agreement has been reached on any of the issues we tabled
before the President and until we see results, Nigerians should ignore
the present efforts by the Tukur camp to deceive them.

On whether President Jonathan should contest the 2015 presidential
election or not, we wish to say that we have a mechanism and system of
electing our flag-bearers for any election and until the time to
choose the party’s presidential flag-bearer comes, any speculation on
this is just a mere academic exercise.

Tukur’s Faction Not Serious About Peace Moves

Meanwhile, we have been vindicated in our claim that Alhaji Tukur and
his faction are not serious about their purported search for the
return of peace in our party. Just few hours after Sunday’s meeting
between the progressive Governors and the President, Tukur’s faction
once more showed its disdain for peace by unilaterally setting up a
Caretaker Committee to run the affairs of our Kano chapter. This was
done without recourse to either the Leader of the party in Kano State,
Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso, or other stakeholders of the party from Kano.
This illegality is a clear violation of our party’s constitution and
was hurriedly done just to spite Gov. Kwankwaso, the Party Leader in
the state

We hereby urge our people in Kano State to ignore this illegality as
we have set in motion the machinery to organise a proper election as
stipulated by our party’s constitution.

We are still at a loss why Tukur and his cohorts do not want peace to
reign in PDP but no matter the odds we are very determined to ensure
that peace is restored to our party with the prayers of Nigerians.

Along this line, we once more appreciate the efforts of our Party
Elders to resolve the current crisis bedevilling our party and wish
them success irrespective of the evil designs of Tukur’s faction to
elongate the crisis for selfish reasons.

Long live PDP!
Long live Nigeria!!!

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
National Publicity Secretary, PDP