A founding member of the splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Godwin Duru has shed some light on what prompted him and his group to form a parallel party.
The group which calls itself Fresh PDP announced the splitting from the main PDP yesterday at a news conference from its headquarters in Asokoro Abuja.
Duru was an aggrieved aspirant for the office of the National Organising Secretary (NOS). He blames a purported unity list drawn up at the 9 December PDP national convention which had his name removed as the reason for his action.
Meanwhile, the official PDP has said on its Twitter page that it’s not disturbed by the emergence of the group.
“On the Purported Splinter Group: PDP remains united and unperturbed. The @OfficialPDPNig is happy with the efforts of the @iamHSDickson led National Reconciliation Committee and will not respond to some group of persons who allow themselves to be used by forces outside the PDP”, the tweet reads.
Duru stresses that the neglect of their complaints by the reconciliation committee after the convention is also a factor that led to the emergence of the new fraction.
He tells Channels TV: “After the convention, I called some of the party hierarchy to register my disgust over the outcome of the election and processes but all of them refused to pick my calls.
“They felt we are not important; the only people they recognised were the chairmanship aspirants.
“We also went through processes of screening like the chairmanship aspirants; their reconciliation committee is only to the chairmanship aspirants and not to us in other positions, because they felt we are not important having dealt with us. ?
“The PDP election was never an election, it was a fraud, my name was removed from the ballot and not even on the purported unity list.
“Unity list means all the aspirants have come together to agree on the people that will be represented but in this case nobody notified or consulted me on people compiled in the list.
“You can have a list but a list with PDP logo is wrong and all activities on Dec 9th went in same line with the list.
“Most people on the unity list did not campaign or buy form, were not screened but came up to become winners.” ?
On the legality of his new party which had no governor or INEC presence, Duru says they were all co-founders of PDP. Therefore, they had the right to take the decision without the aforementioned.
He adds: “It is not anonymity, every member of a party with legal standing has right to correct or air his views about the anomalies of the party.
“Nobody is above each other, we are all equal founders of the party so we have right to take our decision.”
We all pray this group is going to be a good one
May God help us all and forgive us our sins.
Politcs in Nigeria is just like a way among other parties.
Lack of communication…. Self-interest….no concern for the masses…. This is written all over this
That what cost it bro.
only God will save themselves from themselves
Amen o
I think you should crosscheck what you say.
a party which has single handedly put this nation is problems
Yes na.
they themselve know the party is corrup and has isues
They know everything my brother
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I’m not a fan of politics. It’s just too dirty in this country
Politcs I think Is not dity but our Nigeria leaders which I think makes it dirty.
What I can see here is that the reason for the split is that the PDP chairman aspirants refused to acknowledge the complaints of Mr Duru and other members which is not actually good at all and this has caused a discord between them.
Yeah but that doesnt make the splinters Angels
They’re all the same… After their own self interest….”shakes head”
For sure katty .
And they keep telling us we at the leaders of tommow yet they wontbleave the position.
I don’t think they will move an inch out from that position.
So this is how this leaders will lead us abi
Am just speechless.