PORT HARCOURT
– PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP has explained why it did not conduct elections
into its national offices despite its earlier insistence that the
convention
will hold in compliance with a July 4 Federal High court judgement in Port
Harcourt.
Fielding
questions Wednesday from newsmen in Government House, Port Harcourt, Publicity
secretary of the National Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said the
party did not want to create any atmosphere of chaos so it went for extention
of the tenure of the caretaker committee in place of elections at the
convention.
He said some
leaders of the party had mooted the idea of relocating to another venue to
conduct elections of the party but it was resolved that security operatives
could still come to disrupt the exercise.
Adeyeye said
the decision to extend the tenure of the Senator Ahmed Markafi Caretaker
Committee had redressed the lacuna that could have arisen if the convention had
not held.
“The party
inaugurated the new NEC today and it met and decided to go ahead with our
national convention. The convention relocated to the secretariat of the party
in Rivers state. The place was big enough to accommodate all the delegates of
the party and other leaders of the party.
The convention
took some decisions that the tenure of the CTC be extended by 12 months, the
CTC be expounded from 7 to 13. Members are not to contest for any elective
office of the party”, he said.,
He said
security operatives ignored an interlocutory order from a High Court in Port Harcourt
to provide security for the convention, choosing to respect the Abuja High
court order.
Adeyeye said
security operatives should also have complied with another High court judgement
in Abuja that said Ali Modu Sherif was never a Chairman of the party.
He further
expressed strong hope that the party will come out stronger from the crisis.”
Thank God we had our convention and within this twelve months everything will
be settled. The federal high court in Port Harcourt made very sensitive
pronucnements that the convention should go ahead but they were ignored by
security agencies. We have a judgement of court delivered by Justice Mohammad
Liman that gave legality to our convention “, he said.
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