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  • ASUU: You’re relishing the agony, frustrations of parents, PDP slams FG on strike

    ASUU: You’re relishing the agony, frustrations of parents, PDP slams FG on strike

     

    …decries lingering strike, blames minister

    …as NEC approves national campaign council

    …says submitting APC members to INEC by FG was most unpatriotic

    The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has decried the lingering strike of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU saying APC is relishing the agony, pains of parents and students.

    The main opposition party in Nigeria also slammed the Minister of Education for his regular display of arrogance in the manner he is handling the issue.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a 21-point communique issued at the end of its NEC meeting on Thursday.

    The party in the strongest terms blasted the Federal Government for submitting names of APC card card carrying members to INEC.

    In the communique,NEC lamented the failure of the APC government to address the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). NEC lamented that the APC is relishing the agony, pain and suffering of parents and students in Nigerian public universities due to the prolonged strike action.

    It condemned the constant display of arrogance by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu in handling the issue of ASUU strike and called for a more constructive engagement by stakeholders to resolve the matter.

    The party’s critical stakeholders also approved the campaign council of the PDP with its national spread from the grassroots.

    Passed a vote of confidence on the National Working Committee (NWC) led by Sen. Dr. Iyorchia Ayu for effectively managing the affairs of the Party and restated its confidence in the NWC to lead the PDP to victory in the 2023 general elections.

    Received and accepted the resignation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sen. Walid Jibrin and accepted the nomination of Sen. Adolphus Wabara, the Secretary of the BoT, as Acting Chairman of the BoT.

    ” NEC thanked Sen. Jibrin for his loyalty and commitment towards the unity, stability and success of the Party at all times and urged him not to relent in his service to the Party and the Nation at large.

    “Congratulated the Party as well as the Osun State Governor-Elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke for our victory in the July 16, 2022 Osun Governorship election

    “Commended the NWC, the Board of Trustees, PDP Governors’ Forum, National Assembly Caucus, Zonal and State Caucuses, other leaders, critical stakeholders and all organs of the Party for the successful conduct of the 2022 National Convention as well as all primaries for the election of our candidates for the 2023 General Elections.

    “Unanimously ratified the list of candidates of the PDP as submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the NWC.

    “Congratulated H.E Atiku Abubakar and H.E Ifeanyi Okowa on their emergence as Presidential and the Vice Presidential Candidates of the PDP for the 2023 Presidential election, respectively.

    ” NEC also congratulated all the Governorship, Senatorial, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly Candidates of the PDP for their emergence as flagbearers of our Party at various levels.

    “Commended all leaders, members, critical stakeholders and supporters of our Party across the country for their continued steadfastness in the PDP’s mission to Rescue, Rebuild and Redirect our nation from the nightmarish misrule of the failed APC.

    On the state of the nation, the party stalwarts strongly decried the worsening state of the nation’s economy with attendant excruciating hardship occasioned by the corruption, insensitivity, incompetence and harsh economic policies of the inhumane and vicious APC.

    ” NEC is also appalled by the worsening insecurity in the country occasioned by the obvious complicity of the APC administration which continues to condone and enable acts of terrorism in various parts of the country.

    “Lamented the failure of the APC government to address the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). NEC lamented that the APC is relishing the agony, pain and suffering of parents and students in Nigerian public universities due to the prolonged strike action.

    “Condemned the constant display of arrogance by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu in handling the issue of ASUU strike and called for a more constructive engagement by stakeholders to resolve the matter.

    “NEC also condemned in the strongest terms the appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari of card-carrying members of the APC as INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).

    This unpatriotic act is a brazen plot by the APC to manipulate and rig the 2023 general elections against the Will of Nigerians. The PDP demands that President Buhari immediately withdraws the APC members nominated as RECs, failure of which has the capacity to trigger serious political crisis that can threaten the 2023 general elections and derail our democratic process.

  • BREAKING: Ex-Senate President, Wabara now PDP BoT chairman as Walid steps aside

    BREAKING: Ex-Senate President, Wabara now PDP BoT chairman as Walid steps aside

    Ex-Senate President Adolphus Wabara emerges Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as Senator Walid Jibrin, resigns.

    He has also been named the Political Adviser of the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu.

    Wabara, who was before now, the Secretary of the PDP BoT, would also be appointed to the presidential campaign council of the PDP.

    The BoT chairman announced his resignation at the ongoing Trustees’ meeting on Thursday in Abuja.

    Jibrin said he resigned in order to resolve some of the knotty issues confronting the opposition party, especially the leadership crisis.

    There have been growing demands for the resignation of Jibrin and the party’s National Chairman, Iyorcha Ayu, since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate.

    The candidate, party chairman and Trustees’ chairman are from the North.

  • Presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku to speak at NGE’s confab, Sept 6

    Presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku to speak at NGE’s confab, Sept 6

     

    Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar will be key discussant at this year’s Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE annual confab slated for September 13 in Lagos.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a statement jointly signed by the guild’s president, secretary, Mustapha Isa and Iyobosa Uwugiaren.

    In the statement the guild said:”One of the fundamental issues that featured prominently during our Editors’ Training Workshops and Town Hall Meetings, held across the six geo- political zones early this year, with the theme: ‘’Media And The Task of Consolidating Nigeria’s Democracy’’, was the need for Editors to thoroughly interrogate the democratic landscape.

    ” This comprises the political actors: the electoral body, the candidates for elections, the security agencies, the political observers and the electorate , ahead of the 2023 general elections.

    “The whole idea is for the media to put all the political actors and other stakeholders on their toes and provide the electorate with useful information to enable them make informed decisions before, during and after the 2023 general elections. Letters have been sent to many political actors to be part of this engagement.

    “To kick start the conversation, we wish to invite all members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors to participate in the first edition of the Editors’ Forum on the 2023 general elections, which holds on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at Colonnades Hotel, 21 Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos by 6 pm.

    “The guest speaker for that day is the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. He is expected to entertain questions from editors on his policies, programmes, as well as the manifesto of his party .

     

    “The Guild believes that the forum offers candidates an opportunity to engage media leaders on details of their plans and programmes if elected into into office.

    Please, note that the event is at the instance of the NGE and solely funded by us.

    We, therefore, enjoin our members to fully participate in the event and be punctual.

  • BREAKING: Finally, Walid Jibrin resigns as PDP BoT Chairman

    BREAKING: Finally, Walid Jibrin resigns as PDP BoT Chairman

     

    …as crisis nosedives

     

    Senator Walid Jibrin has just resigned his position as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    He announced his resignation at the just concluded BoT meeting held at the Wadata Plaza national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

    Thenewsguru.com, (TNG) recalls that the chairman had a few days ago promised to step down to assuage alleged lopsidedness in the party’s leadership positions.

    Jibrin had earlier lamented that it is not democratic for the northern part of the country to produce the presidential candidate, the national chairman, BoT chairman and PDP Governors Forum chairman.

    Details later….

  • Elections: Fear grips PDP as Court serves suit seeking dissolution of Ayu led Exco

    Elections: Fear grips PDP as Court serves suit seeking dissolution of Ayu led Exco

     

    … National Legal Adviser allegedly rejects service

    …advises defendants to do same

    Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in panic mode as Abuja Federal High Court serves party suit seeking dissolution of the Dr Iyorchia Ayu led leadership for not being properly constituted.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reliably gathered that when the National Legal Adviser allegedly heard about the service he outrightly rejected it and immediately advised other defendants to do same.

    A source privy to this development told TNG that “apart from the national secretariat of the party that received the service other defendants had deliberately shunned it.

    It was further revealed that the suit challenging the legality of the Ayu led leadership is a sweeping one that could sweep out every member of the executive over night.

    “The source said this development has made most members from the south to start having a second thought about Ayu thereby calling for his immediate removal to enable the party move forward.

    “The most agonising part of it all is that nobody seems to know where this heavy wind is blowing from, whether it’s from APC or our people within.

    “While some are alleging it’s Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, others are pointing the accusation finger at the former chairman, Uche Secondus who was allegedly and wrongly booted out of office.

    “Our accusations are endless but we must find a way to swim out of this ocean of confusion or we should forget about 2023.

    “The only thing we know for certain is that one former Rivers Commissioner Chukwuma Chinye had gone to court to demand that this leadership is illegally and improperly constituted.

    TNG recalls that a former Principal Secretary to former Chairman of PDP, Barrister Chuma Chinye and a former Special Adviser to AGF, Mohammed Adoke is behind the suit.

    Chinye had through his counsel, PT Akon gone to court demanding that the removal and replacement of Prince Uche Secondus then National Chairman and his replacement by Elder Yemi Akinwumi,
    Deputy National Chairman and his exclusion and ousting from office for
    lawful reason or any just cause and without regards to the provisions of
    Constitution of the 1st Defendant is unlawful, unconstitutional and of no effect whatsoever.

    “A Declaration that in the absence and deliberate exclusion of Prince Uche
    Secondus, the then National Chairman from presiding over the conduct of af
    presiding the holding of the National Convention and on the 30th and 31st day of October, 2021, when the National Convention was held, the said National
    Convention, the outcome and all matters, resolutions, decisions and steps
    including the election/adoption of the 2nd and 20th Defendants as National Chairman and Members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the 1st Defendant is null and void and of no effect whatsoever by reason of it being improperly constituted.

    “An Order setting aside the proceedings of the National Convention of
    Defendant that held on the 30th and 31st day of October, 2021 including
    resolutions, steps taken, including the election/adoption of the 2nd
    Defendants as National Chairman and Members of the National Working
    Committee as same was not properly constituted and consequently null a
    and of no effect.

    “A Declaration that, the National Convention that took place on the 30th
    day of October, 2021 is invalid, null and void for reasons of non-compliance to
    Article 6(7) of the Constitution of the 1st Defendant which stipulates that
    the Offices shall be reserved for the Women.

    ” An Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the 2nd – 20th Defendant
    further performing the functions of the National Chairman and Members of
    National Working Committee (NWC) of the 1st Defendant and from parading
    themselves as National Chairman and Members of the National
    Committee of the 1st Defendant or doing or causing to be done any act that
    capacities and from exercising any of the powers or performing
    functions or enjoying any of the privileges of these offices.
    “An Order directing the 1st Defendant to conduct an emergency
    Convention in accordance with the provisions of its Constitution
    National Chairman and Members of the National Working Comm
    ninety (90) days from the date of the judgment of this Honorable Court.

    The NEC of the party is scheduled to hold today to deliberate whether the oldest political party in Nigeria PDP will continue to oscillate until elections are over in 2023.