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New PDP Labels Wike Traitor, Misfit …Urges Tukur To Resign
The leadership of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike as a traitor and misfit in the exalted position he occupies.
The party stated this while reacting to remarks credited to the minister accusing Rivers State Governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the new PDP sponsoring the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
In a statement yesterday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the party said, “we have read with dismay the statement credited to the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, that Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and the New Peoples Democratic Party are behind the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“We would have ordinarily ignored Wike’s outburst as the ranting of a confused and clueless minister but have decided to reply so as to set the record straight.
“We challenge Wike to produce evidence to back up his allegation or bury his head in shame forever.
“If we may ask, was it Governor Amaechi or any other of our members that negotiated on behalf of the Federal Government in 2009 when it reached the agreement with ASUU, which it has inexplicably refused to honour, thus laying the foundation for this lingering strike that has mortgaged the future of innocent Nigerian youths? And did any member of New PDP negotiate on the part of ASUU during the recently deadlocked talks with the Federal Government over the strike?
“It is unfortunate that instead of committing himself towards finding a solution to the crippling strike, Wike has instead chosen to trivialise the issue and to ridicule himself.
“Unfortunately, it is the actions and utterances of court jesters like Wike that have made perceptive Nigerians to describe President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as a kindergarten government.
“For Wike to have made this statement against a group that ordered her members to fast and pray for this unfortunate strike for over a week and even set up a committee under the Chairmanship of His Excellency, Governor Babangida Aliyu to proffer solutions on how to come out of the quagmire occasioned by Wike’s inability simply demonstrates the lack of wisdom on his side!
“We are at a loss as to how a supposedly serious government should continue to retain such an incompetent and unserious mind as a minister of the very strategic Ministry of Education in a country of accomplished educationists and administrators.”
The new PDP advised the minister to minimize the damage which he is doing to the Jonathan administration by concentrating on his work instead of making more enemies for President Jonathan, whom he pretends to be loyally serving but whose downfall he is secretly plotting in keeping with his traitorous utterances and actions.
The statement also advised President Jonathan to put his house in order and flush out enemies of the government within his cabinet instead of persecuting and embarrassing his true friends and political associates, who hold the key to the party’s victory in 2015.
Meanwhile, Alhaji Kawu Baraje led-factional PDP has directed the remaining G7 governors who are yet to embark on Hajj in Mecca who include Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Alh. Kwankwaso of Kano State to meet President Goodluck Jonathan by 9am on 7th October, 2013 in Abuja to formally obtain permission from Mr. President to shift the meeting date to a more convenient date pending the return of all their leaders from Hajj operation.
The spokesman to the breakaway PDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze made this known in a short online statement on the night of 6th October, 2013, saying, “Shifting the meeting to morning period is to allow the mentioned Governors apart from Governor Amaechi to travel to Mecca later in the day of 7th October, 2013 for the Haji operation”
The new PDP noted that the latest was taken because of the plea by President Jonathan and the respect they have for his office.
In the meantime, Alhaji Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded for the immediate resignation of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for not being a registered and card-carrying member of the party and has no business being its National Chairman.
The splinter PDP noted that Alhaji Tukur was expelled from the PDP in 2006 with nine others following disciplinary action taken against them for anti-party activities and since then, he has not officially returned to the party.
“All the records at our disposal show that Alhaji Tukur has not followed due process for his readmission into the party. He neither apply for, nor obtained the requisite waiver by the National Executive Committee of the party before offering himself for election into the office of National Chairman in 2012. This makes his membership incurably defective and his emergence as PDP’s National Chairman null and void and of no effect whatsoever since he is the product of a flawed process” the new PDP argued.
“Reliable information reaching us from the PDP National Secretariat indicates that Alhaji Tukur is desperately seeking a way out of his predicament and has set about falsifying party records with regard to revalidating his membership through the back door. We wish to put him on notice that this is criminal and we hope he understands the consequences of his actions.
“In this regard, Alhaji Tukur’s continued occupation of the Office of PDP National Chairman is clearly fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional.
