The Peoples Democratic has said it would
recall the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Rivers
State, Rotimi Amaechi, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Wamakko,
from their suspension if they apologise to the party.
The ruling party said the governors were
suspended in the interest of the party. It said it would only recall
the two governors if they showed remorse for their actions and
recognised the supremacy of the party.
While the party suspended Wamakko on
Wednesday for alleged “disrespect and act of insubordination” to its
National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, and his office, Amaechi was suspended
on May 27, for refusing to reinstate a local government chairman in the
state.
Speaking to our correspondent on the
telephone on Friday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party,
Olisa Metuh, said it was saddening that Amaechi and Wamako took actions
that warranted their punishment.
He noted that the suspension of the
governors from the party was to enforce party discipline, adding that,
“there is no correlation between their suspension; it’s purely
coincidental.”
Metuh said, “Anytime there’s remorse from our leaders and governors, we will rejoin with them.
“We’ll welcome them with both hands;
we’d rejoice with them and their reunion. That’s what we want; we just
want an acceptance of the supremacy of the party’s organs.
“As a party, we seek to add more; we
don’t seek to reduce. Everything that happened was quite unfortunate. It
was bound to happen in the interest of the party. Not that we rejoice
in it; we are sad about the development. We are not happy about it.”
The PDP spokesman said the party gave Wamakko an opportunity to defend himself but he allegedly ignored the party.
Metuh said, “We invited him and he
didn’t come. We invited him the second time and he didn’t come. We wrote
him and he directed the state secretary to reply. What other fair
hearing did he want?
“We gave him the
opportunity to defend himself. Is it fair to abandon his party? Is it
fair to be indisciplined? Is it fair that he abdicated his
responsibility to his party?”
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ReplyDeleteHas PDP showed remorse or tended any apologies to Nigerians for its failure of governance, underdevelopmentand high corruption?
ReplyDeletePDP should first apologize to Nigerians for its multiple rigging in the past, misrule, breeding corruption and failing to fight same, then it can ask for apologies from its members. Foolish breed of politicians.
ReplyDeleteRogues(PDP) are at war always..creating hardship for the people..they still want us to vote for them???
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