AS politicians prepare for the 2015 general election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will disqualify any aspirant caught offering bribes to delegates to secure its ticket to contest electoral office. Alhaji A. Gumbari, the party’s zonal chairman in Kaduna State, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos, Plateau State, on Monday. He said a special committee had been set up to monitor the activities of aspirants and report any unwholesome attitude to the party headquarters. “We have resolved to field only popular, acceptable and appropriate candidates in 2015 and shall not tolerate anyone sharing money or using any other dirty tactics to influence the primaries,” he said. According to him, the sanctions for bribe-offering aspirants would be very severe, adding that the minimum was disqualification from the race. “The party can also suspend or expel the erring party member from its fold so as to cleanse the system,” added Gumbari, a two-term member of the House of Representatives. He advised rich party faithful to use such money to develop the party and strengthen it to win elections. “Wealthy members should rather contribute toward a stronger fold, so that PDP will be repositioned to continue to be the leading political outfit that it already is. Such monies, if contributed to the pool, will be receipted,” he said. Gumbari also spoke on recent allegations by the Congres for Progressive Change (CPC) leader, General Muhamadu Buhari, that the southern part of the state had gained nothing from its loyalty to the PDP since 1999. “I feel strongly against what he said. I think he was just exercising his right to freedom of speech as allowed in a democracy. Many people have commented on that and I share their opinion that the allegation is not worth worrying about. “The PDP government at the federal and state levels have built many roads and bridges; our people have risen to the pinnacle of their chosen fields. We now have a state university with the vice chancellor coming from the southern zone. “The PDP has made it possible for us to produce the governor of Kaduna who died last year. We never dreamt of that, but the party gave it to us against all odds,” he said. According to him, the PDP would remain the dominant party in the state, while he declared that the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress (APC) would never be a threat to the PDP, as it was “well rooted” in Kaduna State and, therefore, had no fear. модули joomla 2.5
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