The five men are Prince Obi
Nwosu, Alhaji Hassan Adamu, Chief Olusola Akindele, Chief Godwin Duru and
Franklyne Edede.
Only two flags of the party
are taped to the burglary of the building to indicate that it is a party
office.
A group made up of about five men on Wednesday ‘opened’ a parallel secretariat for the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in Abuja.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission recognised the national headquarters of the party is located at
Wuse, Zone 5, Abuja.
Nwosu, who is the leader of
the five-man faction, said that members of the National Working Committee of
his group would be announced in January
next year.
According to Nwosu, the
“Fresh PDP” is “emerging due to the imposition of a unity list on members on
December 9, 2017.”
He said that his group was
not happy with the outcome of the national convention which produced the new
national officers for the party.
Asked how his group
emerged, he said the members were the stakeholders of the party and the
defeated candidates at the convention.
He, however, did not
explain how he emerged as the leader of the group, but said that he was not
elected.
It is being speculated that
the group is being sponsored by some defeated candidates at the party
convention.
However, one of the
defeated chairmanship candidates, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has disowned the group.
Adeniran, who spoke through
the Director of his Campaign Organisation, Mr. Shehu Garban, in Abuja stated
that anybody who had genuine grievances was free to express them but cautioned
that his principal should not be linked to the group.
Speaking on the presence of
a member of his campaign team in the aggrieved group, the former minister said
he did not send anyone to the group.
“We do not know them. They
don’t represent us and we have nothing to do with them. Whenever is there doesn’t represent us,” he
added.
Meanwhile, the Governor of
Ekiti State and the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors’ Forum and
the National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, have said that those who have identified
themselves as Fresh PDP members ought to have been arrested and jailed for
disrupting the nation’s peace.
Fayose, while hosting
Secondus who had come in company of other members of the party’s National
Working Committee for the local government election rally coming up in Ado
Ekiti on Thursday (today), said the Fresh PDP members were mere distractors who
should be ignored.
According to a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor said, “In a civilised society those parading
themselves as Fresh PDP members should have been clamped into jail. They are
simply charlatans. I won’t be surprised and we are doing investigations to know
those who are behind them.
“In a society like Nigeria,
where we need a virile opposition, we need to continually put the government of
the day on its toes for them to know that Nigeria is greater than all of us,
some miscreants would just issue press statement and say they are a splinter
group or whatever they call themselves.
“I urge Nigerians to ignore
them. When I saw them on the Internet, they were faceless people I could not
recognise, so they remain a set of jobless people and miscreants.”
Also, the national
leadership of the party said that the PDP was not moved by what it called the “comical act of some
individuals who make outlandish claims in the media regarding the party.”
According to a statement
issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan,
the party insisted that its house remains intact.
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