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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki, yesterday, said the party was not holding Congress in any part of the country.
Turaki, in a statement, said some former members of the party were allegedly circulating information that the opposition party was holding congresses in some states.
He noted that what the party was focused on is the conduct of its digital membership registration, ahead of the commencement of nominations for the 2027 elections.
According to him, “Our party is not conducting congresses in any part of the country. The false information is being circulated by expelled members of our party, who now have clearly shown their unrelenting appendages to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in a bid to kill our party and derail our democracy.
“This false information and illegal association is one of the plans in the playbook of those who had mortgaged the fate of our party to the President and the APC, in return for political appointments and other favours,” he said.
Turaki noted that the PDP would not be surrendered to people who do mean well for the party, noting that “this disposition is obviously against the principles of multiparty democracy, which is the best option for a heterogenous and pluralistic society like ours.”
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The party has been embroiled in crisis since 2023, following a tussle for supremacy between the governors led by Bala Mohammed and Seyi Makinde of Bauchi and Oyo states, on the one hand and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), Nyesom Wike on the other.
The PDP became polarised in the aftermath of its last National Convention, in Ibadan, last November, which produced the Turaki led NWC.
While the Turaki led NWC is backed by Governors Bala Mohammed and Makinde of Oyo State; the Wike camp constituted a caretaker committee headed by Abdulraham Mohammed, pending the conduct of a national convention.
Last December, the caretaker committee, announced the dissolution party executives 14 states, including Borno, Bauchi, Oyo, Zamfara, Yobe, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Delta, Taraba, Kano and Lagos and scheduled fresh congresses in the affected states
Prior to the Ibadan convention, there were conflicting court rulings on whether or not the exercise should hold. While two Federal High Courts asked the party not to go ahead with the convention until certain conditions were met, an Oyo State High Court directed the PDP to proceed with the convention as scheduled.
The two camps are currently awaiting the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the leadership crisis.
