No More Division In Adamawa PDP, Says Metuh
SAN FRANCISCO, May 01, (THEWILL) – The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has debunked speculations that the party’s structure in Adamawa State has been balkanised along interest lines as a fall-out of the recommendations of the Governor Sule Lamido-led ad hoc Committee on Adamawa Crisis and Reconciliation.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement, Tuesday, said the Adamawa State chapter of the party is united under one umbrella, adding that all members of the PDP in the state are now working together in line with the recommendations of the ad hoc committee.
The party also explained that the report of the ad hoc committee was not exclusively received by the National Working Committee (NWC) but by the entire leaders of the party comprising the President, the Vice President; Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, the leadership of the National Assembly, including the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Senate President; Chairman and members of PDP Governors’ Forum, other Principal Officers of the National Assembly, among other leaders of the party.
“The leadership of the PDP in Adamawa is united. There is no division as speculated in some quarters. The party executive has not been shared between the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Governor Murtala Nyako as reported in some sections of the media.
“There is no group for the governor and another group for the National Chairman. What we have in Adamawa is one PDP in line with the recommendations of the PDP ad hoc Committee on Adamawa Crisis and Reconciliation.
“Also we wish to state that the report of the Governor Lamido-led ad hoc committee was not exclusively received by the National Working Committee (NWC).
“For the avoidance of doubt, the report was received by the entire leaders of the party comprising the President, the Vice President; Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, the leadership of the National Assembly, including the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Senate President; Chairman and members of PDP Governors’ Forum, other Principal Officers of the National Assembly, among other leaders of the party”, Metuh said in the statement .
The PDP leadership also re-echoed its call to all members of the party to support the PDP candidate in the rescheduled Adamawa State Assembly election so as to ensure that the party retains its pre-eminent position in the state.