The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is beyond reconciliation.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, stated this in Lagos, on September 28, 2013, Friday.
When the Secretary declared in his speech that the “PDP has broken into pieces,” a thunderous “Amen!” greeted his words.
Lai
Mohammed addressed a congregation that attended the 8th edition of Town
Hall meeting and graduation ceremony of Youth Empowerment and Skills
Acquisition Scheme organised by the representative of Lagos-Central
senatorial district, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu.
Lai Mohammed described the two events that occurred on 31st of July and 31st of August this year, as a watershed in the history of Nigeria.
He
recalled that on July 31, 2013, the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) announced the birth of the APC while exactly a month
later, seven governors and other political bigwigs within the PDP staged
a walk out from the party’s special convention in Abuja and announced
the “New PDP”.
The
August 31 saga, he said, marked the end of PDP’s regime in Nigeria
because that would be the first time in the history of the country that
seven governors and other party’s stalwarts will walk out on a sitting
President.
The
governors that staged the walkout included Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa),
Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano), Aliyu Babangida
(Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rotimi
Amaechi (Rivers).
It
would be recalled that efforts by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-
military dictate ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, ex- Vice-President,
Chief Alex Ekwueme, PDP ex-National Chairmen, PDP Chairman Board of
Trustee, Chief Anthony Anenih and other leaders to resolve the crisis
are still in vain.
The
Kawu Baraje-led faction of the PDP threatened to form a new party or
align with another party if the Bamanga Tukur-faction did not yield to
its demands.
The ‘New PDP’ demanded the sacking of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; adding that President Jonathan forget his re-election ambition. It also demanded the Nigeria Governors Forum and Rivers State crises should be resolved; and the “harassment” of governors by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should be stopped.
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