- The fall-out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s national convention may prove costly
- Some aggrieved aspirants are already planning to set u a parallel National Working Committee (NWC)
- They also called on the party's Board of Trustees (BoT) to intervene
A report by Daily Trust indicates that some aggrieved aspirants under the aegis of PDP Candidates and Stakeholders Forum, on Wednesday, December 13, rejected the results of last Saturday’s national convention of the party which produced Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman.
The forum also called on the chairman of the PDP's Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, to call an emergency meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC).
Comrade Franklyne Edede, who contested for the office of PDP national youth leader and Chief Godwin Chinedu Duru, who contested for the office of national organising secretary, said the meeting was necessary to address contentious issues.
The PDP national convention was largely seen as successful. Source: Twitter
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Prince Obi-Nwosu Emmanuel, Hassan Adamu and Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar also appended their signatures on the document as stakeholders.
Their resolution stated that: “We the concerned candidates and stakeholders hereby reject in totality the result released at the 9th December, 2017 National Elective Convention instead of the true result.
“We, therefore, demand the immediate recall of the purported result of the actual votes cast by delegates at the convention.
“We call on the Chairman of BoT to ensure the immediate execution of this demand by convening an emergency NEC meeting within 7 days from the date of this notice.
“Failure to address the items above, we would have no option but to announce the correct results and inaugurate the authentic National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP.”
Meanwhile, a group known as Youths for Better Nigeria (YBN) has called on former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, to vie for the presidency in 2019 alongside a former minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as his running mate.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, December 12, the leader of the group, Ikemba Oscar Ugo, said the presidency being the most important office in the land should be occupied by the best brains with uprightness.
He said the group had identified these qualities in Atiku who, according to them, had over the years remained the bastion of democracy by singularly truncating the third term scheme of an erstwhile president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Thursday, 14 December 2017