Some aggrieved PDP Senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants in Adamawa State have petitioned the PDP Chairman National on the illegal and improper conduct of National Assembly primaries in Adamawa State.
It will be recalled that the National Working Committee of the PDP has shifted the conduct of Senatorial/House of Representatives primaries in Adamawa State to Abuja contrary to the Article 26 (a) (i) (ii) and (iii) of the PDP guidelines on primaries that provides in clear and categorical terms as follows “In the conduct of primaries for the party’s candidates for the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the primaries shall be held at the Senatorial District Headquarters.” All the delegates to the Special Congress shall assemble in the Constituency Headquarters, the constituency Headquarters shall be as prescribed by the Independent National Electoral Commission”
Also, Article 26 (b) (i-iii) says: “In the conduct of primaries for the party’s candidates for the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the primaries shall be held at the Federal Constituency Headquarters.” All the delegates to the Special Congress shall assemble in the Constituency Headquarters, the constituency Headquarters shall be as prescribed by the Independent National Electoral Commission”
The Senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants namely respectively: Sen. Grace F. Bent; Hon. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed; Mr. Elisha Ishiaku; Mrs. Patricia bonos; Sen. Mohammed Mana; Engr Umar Suleiman; Alh Abba Suleiman; Alh. Isa Danburan; Cmdr Usman Sali bodes; Alh. Tijjani K. Kwaghe;Dr Mustapha Saidu; Alh. Umar Babangida Maina; Alh. Abdulrahaman B. Rwatcham; Hon. Ahmed Nwangwsi and Hon. Mohammed Bassu had claimed that list of delegates for the election was changed and substituted by the people that were hired in Abuja while the authentic delegates from Adamawa State were left in Yola as they could not be conveyed because of the sudden change of venue for the primary elections.
The aspirants who had appealed to the PDP National Chairman to object the way and manner that the entre process was handled and save the PDP from collapsing in Adamawa State also copied the President Jonathan, the PDP BOT Chairman, INEC Chairman, the resident electoral commissioner in Adamawa and the commissioner, political party monitoring department of INEC, Abuja.
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