As politicians begin subtle battles
ahead of 2015 elections, a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has
complained that he is being sidelined by the leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party.
Already, he said his name was not on the
delegates lists from Adamawa State chapter of the party for the August
31 Special National Convention.
The party will use the convention to
elect some of its national officers, who resigned recently due to
irregularities in the last election that brought them to office.
Atiku is also protesting against his not
being invited for the party’s National Executive Committee and Board of
Trustees meetings, which he said should not be so “since he is a
statutory delegate as a former Vice President.”
In his protest letter, dated July 11, 2013, Atiku said, “My attention has been drawn to a news report of Monday, July 8, 2013.
“In the said report, the delegates list
for the special national convention, submitted by Adamawa State PDP
chapter, did not contain my name and further inquiries at the PDP
National Secretariat also confirmed the same.
“I have decided to draw your attention to this mistake.”
He added that the 53rd meeting of the NEC held on September 15, 2010, approved his waiver.
He explained that it was as a result of
the waiver that he participated in the party’s 2011 presidential
primary, hence his return to party’s predated the amendment of the
party’s 2012 constitution.
He said the omission of his name
contradicted section 32, subsection 1 (a) of the party constitution,
which states that the membership of the party’s BoT shall consist of
“all past and serving Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria who held or hold the respective posts as members of
the party and who are still members of the party.”
He said as a bonafide member of PDP, he
deserved the respect and privileges conferred on the office of the Vice
President and founding fathers of the party by the PDP constitution.
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