Court declines to stop PDP convention

‎The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said so far, there is no legal encumbrances stopping today’s non-elective convention.

The party, however, said some people tried to obtain court order to stop the convention but failed because the court declined to grant them the order.

Chairman, sub-committee of the special convention planning committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who disclosed this at a pre-convention press briefing yesterday, however, refused to provide further information regarding this.

According to Adeyeye, ‎”Since the plan failed, there is no need speaking further on this. What we have to say is that there is no legal encumbrances stopping the convention.

‎”The convention is going to hold legally and constitutionally.‎” A source in the party however, disclosed that the attempt to stop the convention came from South West‎ PDP.

The zone has remained in crisis even after the Supreme Court judgement that resolved the protracted leadership crisis‎. The two factions led by Governor Ayodele Fayose and Senator Buruji Kashamu respectively, held parallel meetings few days ago.

‎Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Thursday, promised that the party would wade into the crisis in the zone.

“In politics there are always issues but what is important is that we sit down and resolve the issues in a civil manner.

“As a party we will continue to work hard not to lose anybody, but will work much harder to bring in more members to the party,” Makarfi stated.

Adeyeye ‎also disclosed that the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will monitor the convention.

According to him, over 3,000 delegates will attend the convention, which included former members of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff faction.

PDP regretted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) squandered a lot of goodwill given to it by Nigerians in 2015, and blamed the resurgence of Boko Haram in the country after the PDP, on the failure of the party to continue with the insurgency fight after it took over power.

The party described the charges against former Minister of Petroleum Resource, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke as wild allegation, and challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to go to court if it has any case against her.

“This is not the way to prosecute anti-war, go to court if you have any charge against her. It is only the court that can pronounce her guilty.

“If you said you recovered N150 billion, why is Nigeria in recession? What are you doing with recovered loot? APC propaganda will not save you,” Adeyeye advised.