The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the grand finale of
its presidential campaign rally will hold in Adamawa.
The opposition party said the “mega rally” will hold at the
Mahmud Ribadu square in Yola, the capital of Adamawa on Saturday.
In a statement issued on Wednesday night, Umar Bature,
director of field operations, PDP presidential campaign council, asked
members of the party’s national working committee (NWC),
governors, national assembly, and national executive committee (NEC), among
others, to attend the event.
“Please endeavour to
mobilise your supporters massively to participate as we join hands with our
presidential candidate, H.E. Atiku Abubakar, GCON, (Waziri Adamawa) to Recover
Nigeria,” the statement reads.
So far, the PDP has taken its presidential rally to 33
states and the federal capital territory (FCT), while it is scheduled to hold
the penultimate campaign in Taraba on Thursday (Today).
However, the party has been unable to hold its presidential
rally in Rivers state.
On Tuesday, the party cancelled the planned campaign rally
in Rivers, citing alleged attacks on the members of the campaign team in the
state.
Lee Maeba, chairperson of the campaign council in Rivers,
said the rally in the state would not hold to avoid members being attacked.
“In the light of the above submission, we the state campaign
council, in total constructive engagement with the national presidential
campaign council, the candidate, and the party, having seen and evaluated the
bodily harm and potential death threats, believe that no loss of life can be
tolerated, accepted before, during and after the presidential election, and
agree with our principals on the need to shelve and or cancel the rally to
avoid any death, because the victory of Atiku Abubakar does not deserve
spilling of the blood of even one citizen of Rivers state,” Maeba said.
The PDP is grappling with a division after the party’s
primaries which produced Atiku Abubakar as the standard bearer.
The crisis has led to the creation of G5– a group of five
governors led by Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers.
Wike and his allies — including Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel
Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu — have
excluded themselves from the party’s presidential campaign over calls for
Iyorchia Ayu to step down as the party’s national chairperson.
The calls for Ayu’s resignation, according to the group, are
based on the grounds that the presidential candidate and the national
chairperson cannot be from the same region.
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