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•Says APC ‘ll meet its waterloo in 2027From Ndubuisi Orji, AbujaThe Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) has said it would explore legal action to retrieve its mandate from officials elected on its platform, who have defected to the All Progressives Congress ( APC).The party’s acting national chairman, Umar Damagum, stated this, yesterday, while briefing journalists, at the end of a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), which lasted for several hours. googletag.
cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1718806029429-0'); }); Damagum, while decrying the defection of top PDP members, including the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevberi and the opposition party’s 2023 vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, to the APC, said the party had mandated its National Legal Adviser, Kamaludeen Ajibade, to take steps to recover the party’s mandate from the defectors.
He noted that the South South caretaker committee headed by Chief Emma Ogidi had been mandated to take over the affairs of Delta PDP in the interim, stating that all the structures of the party in the state stands dissolved.There have been exodus of PDP leaders and lawmakers to the APC in recent times. Last Monday, the Delta Governor, Okowa and other top party members in the state ditched the party for the APC.
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push({})}); However, Damagum said while the ruling party is intimidating and coercing opposition politicians to join them, it would get its recompense in the 2027 general elections. According to him, Nigerians would revolt against the APC in the 2027 general elections.He said: “Come 2027, Nigerians will speak.
They can coerce, like I said earlier, cajole and intimidate our members into joining there but they can only do that because they feel they have what it takes.“When the time comes, they will receive the result from Nigerians. It has happened before and it will repeat itself.
The parameters that will make Nigerians revolt against them are all in place. “This government has been so insensitive to the yearnings and feelings of people. They have nothing so far.
They have not shown any remorse. We are not conquered people.“We are Nigerians, taxpaying Nigerians, law-abiding citizens.
And we have rights. And when the time comes, Nigerians will show them that they have rights.”Consequently, he charged members of the party to be steadfast, noting that the despite defections of some of its leaders, the PDP remains a very strong political party.
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push({})}); “The PDP is still a brand that all of them are jealous of and I believe this should not wear us down, rather it should make us roll up our sleeves.“We have also instructed the national legal advisor to recover our mandate that they have taken away. The fortune of this party cannot be just left in the hands of our adversaries.
We will take legal action to retrieve those mandates, as far as by the electoral act that says whenever you leave you must leave the chair that you have occupied,” Damagum statedHe added: “No amount of intimidation or mischief will bring down the party. It has survived all sorts of machinations in the past. And this one is just a child’s play.
We have already crossed the line. We are looking forward to 2027, where the country will speak based on the existing hardship that has been deliberately imposed on people.”Furthermore, the party chairman said the NWC, at the meeting, approved the recommendations of the PDP Governors Forum, at its last meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The PDP Governors had affirmed the ouster of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as party national secretary and recommended that the deputy national secretary,Setonji Koshedo to take over as acting secretary, pending the nomination and ratification of a substantive national secretary from the South East.The governors also recommended the holding of an elective national convention to elect a new leadership, between August 28 and 30, and proposed Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri and his Adamawa counterpart , Ahmadu Fintiri, as chairman of the Zoning and Convention Committees respectively. $(document).
ready(function(){(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({})}); Damagum explained that with the approval of the opposition governors recommendations, the NWC would thereafter forward them to the National Executive Committee (NEC) for further discourse at its meeting scheduled scheduled for May 27.
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