New PDP Lays Out The Many Sins Of Jonathan's Government
necessary to raise alarm over what it calls "the war" declared on it
and its members by certain agents and henchmen of the Goodluck
Jonathan administration who have embarked on a mission to intimidate
and overawe us, using various unconstitutional means to achieve their
selfish goals.
"On its part, the Nigeria Police, which has woefully failed to find a
solution to the menace of Boko Haram, kidnapping, assassination and
other criminal acts ravaging the country, has been given a fresh
mandate to frame up our members and term them criminals in order to
keep them at bay.
"The experiment has already started in Bayelsa, the home state of
President Jonathan, where 85% of the citizens have indicated interest
to work against his second term ambition due to the total neglect of
the state and the entire Niger Delta region by the present
administration."The PDP faction chaired by Alhaji Kawu Baraje in the
past few weeks have witnessed the implementation of a well-coordinated
and systematic plot to traumatise, annihilate and cripple the group
economically and politically in flagrant disregard of Chapter IV
Section 33 to 45 of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantees their
fundamental human rights as Nigerians.
A statement on Sunday 27th October 2013, by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
National Publicity Secretary of the splinter PDP reeled out what he
described as "the excesses of these agents of confusion and enemies of
democracy would suffice.
The full statement below:
Contrary to the provisions of Chapter IV Sections 42, 43 and 44 of the
Constitution which guarantee our right as Nigerians to acquire and own
property in any part of the country, our National Secretariat and most
of our State Secretariats have been sealed up by the Police on the
orders of those in power. This is despite the fact that we still have
a court case against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and his National Working
Committee (NWC).
Two weeks ago, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in
its over zealousness to please President Jonathan marked our sealed
National Secretariat for demolition on the laughable excuse that it
was originally approved as a residential building. Yet this property
was being used as the National Secretariat of another political party,
the National Democratic Party (NDP), before New PDP acquired it – and
the same FCTA kept mute! At that time, the FCTA did not realise that
it violated land use but it now wants to demolish the building in a
hurry simply because the authorities perceive the new owner (New PDP)
to be anti-government! What is more, the Adamawa State Lodge, also in
Abuja, which we were using as temporary National Secretariat, has also
been sealed off on the flimsy excuse that the area is not for
commercial activities!
This invidious crackdown has been extended to individual leaders of
the New PDP. The legally acquired Abuja property of His Excellency,
Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the Governor of Kano State, has been revoked by
the tyrannical Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Bala
Mohammed. The same treatment has been meted to Senator Aisha Al-Hassan
from Taraba State, whose event centre, A-Park Gardens, which has been
in operation all these years, has suddenly been revoked by the FCTA
and slated to be demolished at any time from now. Information
available to us indicates that property in Abuja owned by other New
PDP leaders may suffer the same fate.
Today, the security details attached to Senators Abubakar Bukola
Saraki and Danjuma Goje, former Governors of Kwara and Gombe states
respectively, have been withdrawn; so, too, the security details
attached to our National Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje. Of
course, Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State was the first
victim and now operates without an ADC and a CSO in order to pave way
for his kidnapping or assassination if peaceful ways of removing him
from office have fail. The police orderlies of the Rivers State SSG
and those of Amaechi's Chief of Staff have also been similarly
withdrawn without any cogent reasons.
The use of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
hound our members is no longer news. His Excellency Timipre Sylva, the
former Governor of Bayelsa State, and Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki
are two foremost examples. We understand that the worst is yet to come
as this unserious organ masquerading as an anti-graft agency would
soon be unleashed on all our key members in both the Senate and House
of Representatives in an operation code-named "Operation Coerce Them
Back to Tukur".
According to the Bayelsa State Police Command in its press release
dated October 4th, 2013 and signed by the Police Relations Officer,
DSP Akhigwe Alex, on behalf of the State Police Commissioner, "Bayelsa
State Command wishes to inform the general public that as a result of
complaints from well-meaning citizens of Bayelsa State most of which
bothers on criminality against one Richard Poekene Kpodo, a high
powered investigation Committee headed by Assistant Commissioner of
Police in-charge of Central Instigation Department has been set up to
look into the various crimes allegedly committed by him and members of
his syndicates"
But what is the crime of Chief Richard Kpodo? He has suddenly become a
criminal by joining and becoming the State Chairman of the Baraje-led
faction of the PDP in Bayelsa! Curiously, his present hunters have
conveniently forgotten that this was the same man who was in the
forefront of the Campaign Team of President Jonathan in 2011. His
State Secretary, Sidi D. Godwill, was the Zonal Youth Leader of PDP.
These two, together with all other key members of the Baraje-led PDP,
can no longer visit Bayelsa State just because of politics!
The crackdown took a new and frightening dimension yesterday morning
26th October, 2013 when Tonye Okio, the Publicity Secretary of the New
PDP in Bayelsa State, was abducted by the Bayelsa State Police Command
in a commando fashion in his Abuja residence and whisked off to
Bayelsa for a possible trail as a criminal just because he speaks
against the tyrannical style of leadership of the present leadership
in the country.
Few days ago, in a move to root out our people in Gombe State one of
the mainstay of our party based on the revolutionary regime of His
Excellency Senator Danjuma Goje and his unremarkable feats in areas of
road construction, health, education, rural development and provision
of portable water which made him the toast of the masses of Gombe and
after the Baraje led PDP has overrun both the Government machinery and
the aging Tukur's faction of PDP, our leader in the State, Hon. Barr
Mohammed Magaji Doho who was the Commissioner of Water Resources for
eight years during the golden tenure of Senator Goje has been
arrested. This bulldozer and a ruthless grass-root mobiliser together
with 68 of our members were arrested by the Police Command in Gombe
State for no cogent reasons.
This ruthless trampling on our fundamental human rights leaves no one
in doubt that the Jonathan administration is intolerant of opposing
views. Nigerians can now see what we meant when we said that these
people are no democrats. They are intent on turning our country into a
banana republic where the rights of Nigerians no longer count.
Nigerians should prepare for the worst because today it is New PDP but
tomorrow it would certainly be somebody else.
We hereby appeal to President Jonathan to be a statesman and call
these dogs of war to order before they do irreversible damage to our
dear country. We also call on Nigerians to intensify prayers for us
and our troubled nation even as we restate our resolve not to go back
on our sacred duty to reform the PDP and contribute our quota towards
the evolution of a truly democratic Nigeria where the rights of all
citizens are respected irrespective of their political affiliations.
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