Adamawa State Executive committee, stakeholders of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has decided to boycott the presidential
primaries to be held in Abuja Wednesday.
According to the party at a press conference on Tuesday, this was
because of the National Working committee (NWC) decision at imposing
an unpopular candidate on the party.
Professor Andrawus Sawa who read the text the imposed candidate will
extinguish the fortune of the party at both the state and national
level with the intention of truncating democracy.
Loading ...Says he, “it is evident that Adamawa state is a stronghold of PDP and
in 2011 overwhelmingly voted Mr. President, it is unfortunate that
this flagrant and open abuse of rule of law and impunity it is leading
to the complete eradication of the party in the minds of our grassroot
supporters”.
They lamented that without due recourse to the party’s constitution of
a 7 days notice, the purported Governorship primaries was said to have
taken place at Abuja instead of Adamawa.
“More to that, the purported election was conducted in contravention
of a court order restraining the PDP and INEC from using any delegates
list order than the one recognized by all the party executive at all
levels”, they added.
All the governorship, senatorial and house of representatives
aspirants with the exception of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu were in attendance
at the conferences.
Some of them who commented called on Mr. President to out rightly
order a re-run of the primaries (Governorship) in Adamawa State.
