The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said it will sue Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori and other elected officials of the state, for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party’s Acting National Chairman, Ilyas Damagum, said the intention is to retrieve their mandate from the governor and the lawmakers.
This is one of the decisions of the National Working Committee (NWC) at its meeting yesterday following the defection of the governor and all elected party and government officials in Delta State to the APC. All of them were received into the ruling party on Monday in Asaba by Vice President Kashim Shettima and APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.
Damagum also said the NWC decided that errant party chiefs, who openly flirt with the APC would be expelled.
Another decision of the NWC, according to him, is the total adoption of the resolutions of the PDP governors’ meeting in Ibadan on April 14.
The PDP governors resolve that the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting should hold on May 27 and the national convention slated for August on a date to be decided by the NEC.
The governors also rejected Samuel Anyanwu and Monday Udeh-Okoye, both claimants to the office of National Secretary. They ask Assistant National Secretary, Setonji Koshoedo, to act until the election of a substantive secretary at the convention.
Damagum, who spoke to reporters after the NWC meeting, said: “We have adopted the decisions of the PDP Governors’ Forum as recommended so that the NEC can take decisions on them,” Damagum stated.
“We are not conquered people, I urge all our supporters to remain loyal; we may have internal crises but they are surmountable like others that we had overcome in the past”.
Also, it was decided to among others, constitute a Zoning Committee to address all issues relating to the zoning of party offices arrange for PDP’s National convention in Kano between August 28 to 30.
