PDM praises Atiku, governors, for breaking PDP

A new party recently formed by
associates of former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples
Democratic Movement, PDM, has
praised leading members of the
Peoples Democratic Party for walking
out of the ruling party’s special
convention Saturday and announcing a
parallel faction.
Atiku’s associates formed the PDM
weeks ago and there are speculations
that the platform was registered
principally to actualize the
presidential ambition of the former
vice president.
The PDP had today descended into a
full blown crisis when Atiku, seven
state governors and other leading
party members walked out of the
Abuja convention and then addressed
a press conference to say they had
taken over the party.
But in a statement Saturday night,
National Chairman of the PDM, Bashir
Yusuf Ibrahim, praised the dissenting
PDP chieftains for displaying bravery
and statesmanship in challenging
authorities of the PDP.
“The Peoples Democratic Movement
today salutes the bravery and
statesmanship of the dissenting
delegates of the People’s Democratic
Party, PDP, for staying calm in the face
of utmost provocation and outright
oppression during the just concluded
PDP National Convention, held at Eagle
Square Abuja,” the statement said.
“We appreciate their bold, brave and
patriotic stand of these delegates for
refusing to participate in an election
which they knew gave no even playing
ground to all stakeholders.’’
Mr. Bashir added that PDM, which he
described as a party of true
democracy, equity fairness, would
continue to “stand shoulder to
shoulder to shoulder with all true
democrats who wish to make Nigeria
great again through positive political
change”.
The PDM, he said, would, within a few
weeks, throw open its online and
manual registration of prospective
members within and outside the
country.
Atiku and his colleagues had walked
out of the convention to protest the
actions of the organisers who had
disqualified majority of the contestants
vying for party positions.
Over 50 of the 75 aspirants, mostly
presumed to be loyal to opponents of
President Goodluck Jonathan’s second
term ambition within the PDP, were
disqualified from vying for the 17
available National Working Committee,
NWC, positions of the party.

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