A former Minister of State for Finance,
Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye, has refuted
insinuations in some quarters that the
ongoing crisis rocking Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) is being fuelled
by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
According to him, Obasanjo was trying to
forge unity in the party and bring all the
factions together.
Martins-Kuye who spoke in Ijebu-Ode,
Ogun State during the 10th annual
ancestral memorial prayers of
Fushengbuwa family, stated that the
former president could not be the cause
of the brouhaha.
He added that it was unfortunate that the
party was going through crisis, saying
"its a stump in a tea cup, so it would be
resolved."
He said: "Before you can get infected,
there must be a cause. The allegation has
no proof, if anybody can prove that he is
the cause, all that I have seen him doing
is to bring all the parties in the dispute
together with the view to forging one
common unity within PDP."
The former minister, therefore, said the
crisis was a process towards 2015
elections in the country, which he said
the leaders of the party erere trying to
resolve.
He added that Obasanjo was somebody
who is troubleshooting and trying to
resolve peace within PDP, noting that it
will be resolved before it dangerously
affects the fortune of the party.
"Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is putting the
stakeholders together, so that we can put
our house in order and face the
challenge posed by the APC," he added.
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However, the Olori ebi of the family, Mr.
Adebayo Owoyemi, who spoke with
journalists shortly after the prayer
session, prayed for the unity of the
family, saying: "I prayed that everybody
would come together and become part of
the big successful ruling house, it would
happen by the grace of almighty Allah."
Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the PDP,
which resulted in the emergence of a
faction, known as the ‘New PDP,’
gradually spread to the South-west, at the
weekend, with the meeting in Akure, the
Ondo State capital by some former House
of Assembly members, expressing
displeasure on happenings in the party.
The meeting, which was said to be a
gathering of South-west delegates, also
had in attendance groups from a former
governor of Oyo State and some persons
said to be members and leaders of the
Accord Party (AP).
A source, which pleaded anonymity but
attended the meeting, said to have been
held at a popular hotel in Ijapo area of
the state capital, said two key members of
the past executive members of Ekiti State,
under the administration of Chief Segun
Oni, also attended the meeting.
The source also disclosed that two
delegates from the State Working
Committee (SWC) and members loyal to a
major aspirant for the forthcoming
governorship election in Osun State
attended the meeting.
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However, the source, which said seven
key positions had been reserved for the
South-west in the new national executive
of the party, said there were no delegates
from Ogun State at the meeting.
Specifically, from Ondo State, the source
said, movers of the state branch of the
new party comprised the legislative
caucus including some serving and
former members of the state and
National Assembly, excluding Senator
Bode Olajumoke.
He said key members of the SWC were
made up of the 12 local government
executive council members, 132 ward
chairmen and 80 per cent former
councillors in the state during the PDP
administration.
According to the source, six former
members of the National Assembly, nine
former members of the state House of
Assembly and nine leaders of the party
spread across the three senatorial
districts of the state were also said to be
in support of the new PDP.
The source, however, disclosed that a
former long standing principal officer of
the state House of Assembly was the
rallying point of the group.
The group said they were not happy with
happenings in the party over time,
blaming the National Chairman of the
party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and
President Goodluck Jonathan for the
nose diving fortune of the party in the
state.
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The group also frowned at alleged anti-
party posture of the president and the
National Working Committee (NWC)
during the last election and court cases,
the alleged lethargy of the NWC to the
plight of the party during its travails and
sidelining of the election-wining
mainstream leadership of the party in
the state for the opposition.
Other allegations levelled against the
leadership of the PDP and the president
were the alleged encouragement of
internal betrayers and ruling opposition
against key interests of the majority in
the party, mentioning appointments into
federal offices and national offices of the
party at the national convention.
The group alleged that they had concrete
evidence that the presidency and the
national leadership collaborated with the
Labour Party (LP) against the state PDP.
It also stated that the national leadership
of the party was engaging in open
scheme to manipulate the party towards
the aggrandisement of a particular
candidate for 2015 elections.
The group said it was in consultation
with the national leadership of the new
PDP.
most critical aspects of elections together
provoke confusion, and does not give
chance for political parties and
candidates to thoroughly monitor the
voter registration exercise.”
Source :
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