PDP Probes Circulation OF Fake Membership Cards

The national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced the investigation into the circulation of fake membership cards to members.

The PDP chairman in Adamawa State, Alhaji Umaru Kugama who made this known to newsmen in Yola did not give details of the investigation, but said the party’s machinery is strong to get at the root of the matter.

Kugama also said PDP had embarked on the  issuance of new party membership cards and not registration of its members in the state.

The Adamawa PDP chairman however, reaffirmed that the state party executive was intact. 

Kugama told the newsmen at the end of the party’s stakeholders’ emergency meeting that the executive had not been dissolved as was being speculated. 

“The state PDP executive of which I am the chairman will remain in power until 2012 when a new congress is  expected to hold.’’ The dissolution of a state executive council could be done by only the national secretariat of the party and not any group or individual,” Kugama said.

According to him, the party’s structure from the ward, local government to the state level are intact, adding that the purported dissolution was aimed at creating confusion in the party at the state level.

On the reported plan by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to return to the party, Kaguma said he read about it in the media but had yet to receive any correspondence on the matter from the national secretariat. 

But  a PDP factional leader in the state, Princess Medan Teneke, had on Wednesday told Radio Gotel, Yola, a private station, that the national working group of the PDP had announced the dissolution of the state executive.

Teneke also told the radio that Atiku’s return to the PDP would be a plus for the party as the founding fathers of the party were needed in the fold for effectiveness.