There isn’t any let-up but within the disaster engulfing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as former Jigawa State Governor and celebration stalwart Sule Lamido, is threatening a authorized showdown if he’s not allowed to buy nomination varieties to contest the place of the celebration’s National Chairman .
The PDP’s elective nationwide conference is scheduled to carry from the fifteenth to the sixteenth November in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Lamido issued the menace in Abuja on Monday as he stated his efforts to acquire the nomination varieties on the PDP National Secretariat had been unsuccessful. He accused key celebration officers, together with National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and National Organising Secretary Umaru Bature, of complicity within the matter.
Arriving on the PDP headquarters, Wadata Plaza, round 11 a.m. together with his supporters, Lamido was met with closed workplaces and no officers accessible to promote him the nomination kind.
He stated the Organising Secretary’s workplace , historically chargeable for the sale of such varieties , was “officially locked,” stopping entry.
“I came to buy the form as required by the party’s constitution, but to my surprise, the offices were shut. Both the Secretary and Organising Secretary claimed they had no knowledge of where the forms were or how they were being distributed,” Lamido stated.
He stated that he discovered it unusual that even senior officers of the celebration had been unable to entry their very own workplaces.
Lamido’s frustration comes amid tensions surrounding the PDP’s zoning preparations forward of its 2027 presidential ticket.
At the celebration’s 102nd National Executive Committee (NEC) assembly held on 25 August, the PDP resolved to zone the presidential ticket to the South, whereas the National Chairmanship was reserved for the North.
Subsequently, Northern leaders micro-zoned the chairmanship to the North-West and, over the weekend, endorsed former Minister of Special Duties, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as a consensus candidate.
But Lamido and several other northern stakeholders loyal to him have rejected the endorsement, insisting that they had been excluded from the decision-making course of.
“The North-West never met. We were supposed to hold a meeting on Wednesday, but before that could happen, another meeting was hurriedly convened on Tuesday to pre-empt ours. Consensus can only emerge through consultation, not imposition,” Lamido stated.
