A former three-term member of the House of Representatives, Hon Teejay Yusuf has cautioned chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to be careful over the secretaryship tussle that’s rocking the party or the Zamfara debacle could rear its ugly head.
Recall how the All Progressives Party, APC went to election in 2019 without vacating major court orders and finally lost the state to the Peoples Democratic Party PDP after Court’s final pronouncement.
Yusuf referring to the above development has cautioned PDP chieftains to tread softly on the secretaryship tussle as this may rock the boat hinging his position based on Sunday meeting.
Hear him:
“First of all, there was the Supreme Court ruling on secretaryship, the governors met in Ibadan and said they recognize the deputy secretary.
” However the court recognize Anyanwu, apart from that, Anyanwu has a High Court ruling that cannot be removed; so if you had gone ahead to have a NEC meeting without resolving this matter, by implication whatever you do there, somebody will just wake up one day, go to court and quash it.
“It’s a very complicated situation you know that ruling of the Supreme Court has also been known to say that all this internal party affair, all this disputes around positions are internal party affairs.
” But I do know that the controversy was whether it was the NWC or the NEC that said that rather than the Governor’s Forum because they felt that that decision should have come from either the NEC or the NWC not the Governor’s Forum.
“The NWC has no such power. He was elected at the Convention, there’s a process of removal. So why going into that kind of crisis when you have convention coming that you can remove secretary legally, you can rezone so that’s the path they’re taking now.
“We must understand, a friend of mine we were talking this morning, the current governors must understand something that a court ruling is not a buffet, you cherry pick, it’s alakat, you take what is served.
Explaining that: “You might not like it.
If I’m in their shoe all I will do just allow Anyanwu then we prepare, do this kind of meeting we are doing now, do our NEC meeting, prepare for Convention, Convention is in August, he’s out. So why are you putting booby traps?
“The Zamfara experience on how APC lost the whole state is still fresh, we applauded it then, we love what happened and we are walking to that kind of trap.