The
crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party may take a turn for the
worse while the Presidency and the Federal Capital Territory
Administration intensify actions against “rebel” members of the party.
Our Source gathered on Monday that while the Presidency was set to remove such
rebel members holding board appointments, the FCTA was determined to
make sure that more governors sympathetic to the Alhaji Abubakar
Barage-led New PDP lose their landed properties in Abuja.
One of many seven governors in the New PDP,
Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano State, had a selection little bit of land
allocated to him in Maitama District, Abuja, revoked by the FCTA on
Saturday.
Our Source gathered that the FCTA was also set to remove what it termed “illegal
structures on the land” measuring about 2,500 square metres.
Continue after the break.
The
others referred to as rebel governors are: Sule Lamido (Jigawa),
Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Rotimi Ameachi
(Rivers); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).
The
measures being targeted at the rebel governors by Presidency include
the removal of their nominees from boards of federal parastatals and the
withdrawal of any kind of government patronage.
Members of the New PDP, who currently enjoy government patronage in terms of contracts, are likely to end up being the worst hit.
A
source in the Presidency stated that Baraje, who is the chairman of the
board of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, would soon lose the job.
The source, who pleaded anonymity while he was not authorised to talk to the media on the issue, said, “This
is just the beginning. We have pleaded to them and we have even made
concessions but they are adamant. It will undoubtedly be their turn to
beg.”
Even
though Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political
Matter, Ahmed Gulak, and the Special Adviser to the FCT Minister, Mr.
Nosike Ogbuenyi, who confirmed the revocation of Kwakwanso's land denied
it had a political undertone, the New PDP disagreed.
Gulak,who
said the Presidency was not active in the fate of the aggrieved
governors, said that Kwakwanso's land allocation was revoked while he
built on Green Area and thereby bastardised the master plan of the FCT.
He denied knowledge of intend to sack members of the New PDP
serving on the boards of federal agencies, but said the honourable
thing he expected famous brands Baraje to do was to resign their
appointments before fighting the person that appointed them.
He said,
“I
am not conscious of any intend to sack those of them on boards of
government agencies but when I were Baraje, I might have resigned my
appointment before fighting the person that appointed me. That is the
honourable thing to do.”
The
National Publicity Secretary of the New PDP, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze,
said the “desperation” being shown by the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP was not
distinctive from what was obtained during the military era.
He
said Nigeria was currently experiencing a military regime under the
guise of democracy because party members were being hounded for daring
to hold a different opinion.
Eze said ,“This is no more democracy; we're experiencing a military regime under the guise of democracy.
“It's very unfortunate that while we're crying about democracy to the surface world and the requirement to entrench democracy here, we're fighting our fellow democrats just for their political beliefs.”
In
accordance with him, those currently at the helm of affairs must
realise that no matter the ferocity of the attacks on members and
sympathisers of the New PDP, the PDP must be returned to its original owners.
He
said, “If revoking the landed properties of our members in Abuja and
elsewhere is all they can do, they need to look for better what to do.
“If
this is the way they would like to rule Nigeria in 2015, we're going to
do everything legally possible to make sure that no military exposed
mentality may have its way.
“Let
them proceed and use this opportunity to totally expose themselves to
the Nigerian people, we should elect people who'll truly serve Nigerians
and not those who will serve themselves.”
But
Ogbuenyi claimed that Kwakwanso's allocation was revoked as the
governor violated the Land Use Act by encroaching on a natural area.
Asked
if the building on the land could be demolished, he replied, “Whenever
we get to that particular river, we shall cross it.”
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