The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, appears to be witnessing a fresh crisis, as a group has demanded for the immediate resignation of party’s Leaders and members, .
The Concerned PDP League, also known as ‘PDP Watchdog’, called for the resignation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, Walid Jibrin; National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus; Financial Secretary, Abdullahi Maibasira; and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC.
The group insisted that the resignation of the Leaders is inevitable, following their failure to provide strong opposition Leadership that the PDP patriots and Nigerians are yearning for, to salvage Nigeria from the brinks of political, economic, and social collapse.
According to the group, the National Chairman of the PDP and his team are unable to galvanise and harmonise the plethora of individuals, groups, and regional interests, and this has led to a series of decamping, court cases, and crisis across the State and Local Government levels.
The Leader of the Concerned PDP League, Daboikiabo Warmate, who read the demands during a Press Conference, in Abuja, challenged the Leadership to give Nigerians a people-oriented strong opposition.
He also called on the Senate to reject the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
According to him, the PDP helmsmen should lead a one-million man protest against the daily killings, hunger, increase in food price, insecurity, delay in the passage and signing of the Electoral Bill into Law.
Warmate also demanded that the PDP Leaders must stand by the Niger State Congress Appeal Panel report, and conduct a free and fair Congress on or before June 30, 2021, and uphold the suspension of a former Governor of the State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.
He said: “The Board of Trustees Chairman, with his actions and inaction, has done little or nothing in calling the National Chairman to order, and also boosting the morale of millions of members and Nigerians at large, just as the National Chairman has not lived up to his responsibility.”
Warmate added that the nomination of Onochie was “inconsistent with any and every Electoral law in Nigeria, most especially Section 153 Subsection 3 and item F, Paragraph 14 (2) (c) of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution, as amended”.