Reps in New PDP dare Tukur SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI AND SUNDAY ABORISADE Leave a Comment PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur Some House of Representatives members supporting the New Peoples Democratic Party have challenged the Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamaga Tukur, to carry out his threat of declaring their seats vacant. One of the aggrieved lawmakers, Mr. Sekonte Davies, in a statement issued on behalf of his colleagues, on Thursday said that Tukur lacked the powers to carry out the threat. He said, “The PDP was founded on the principle of national consensus-building and to be a platform for uniting the various sections and interests in the country. “The nation was going adrift and well- meaning leaders and patriots decided to form an all-embracing political party which every Nigerian will be proud to belong to and to provide a nexus for nation building.” Davies maintained that both the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act did not empower Tukur to declare their seats vacant. He added, “From all relevant sections of these laws and as severally pronounced by the Supreme Court, you cannot declare anybody’s seat vacant ,especially when there is a division in the party. “We don’t know when disagreements within a political party become a state offence such that he should ask security agencies to harass and arrest his opponents. “We thought this was what the military and political cowards did. “On this note, we also hope that the relevant authorities will call him to order so that they would not be accused of supporting impunity.” The lawmaker also appealed to the Presidency and security agencies not to participate in any illegality in order to avoid crisis. Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party had dismissed rumours that the whereabouts of its certificate of registration were unknown. Rather, it said the certificate was in safe hands and had not been declared missing by any organ of the party. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday, said those peddling the rumours had no knowledge of the workings of the party. He said, “Our certificate is not missing. It is in safe hands. We have not declared it missing. We have seen it and anyone saying that it is missing does not know the workings of our party.” Metuh subsequently asked members of the party to disregard the rumours. There had been speculations on Tuesday among some senior members of the party about the whereabouts of the certificate Some of them had said that the document was with a former leader who had yet to return it to the Wadata Plaza national secretariat of the party in Abuja. The said certificate was alleged to have been with the said officer when a former National Chairman of the party, Chief Audu Ogbe, was asked to resign.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 07:58:43 +0000
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