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The seven aggrieved governors of Peoples Democratic Party and their backers may be summoned to appear before the disciplinary committee of the party if they fail to attend the October 7 meeting with some selected leaders of the party, including President Goodluck Jonathan, reports PUNCH.
The rebel governors, party leaders and the President had met on September 15. They had agreed to keep discussing and find a common ground in order to solve the current crisis rocking the party.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, at a press briefing on Friday in Abuja had said that the party was not afraid to use the big stick.
“We therefore wish to state for the avoidance of doubt that the fact that our leaders have chosen the path of caution and decorum, does not in any way suggest that we are afraid of the consequences of doing otherwise.” He said.
However, the National Publicity Secretary of the Baraje faction of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, in a telephone conversation told PUNCH that his group would wait for Tukur and his men to take the action, adding that the action was a wrong one.
He wondered how the PDP would want to discipline those considered not to be part of it.
He said, “We won’t say anything until when that happens. We will wait for them to carry out the action before we strike.
“But, who will they summon? Which party would do that? Let us see how that would be done.”
A reliable source in the PDP spoke with select journalists in Abuja on Monday. The source said that the October 7 meeting might be the last time for the aggrieved members of the party to make up with the party’s hierarchy.
“Everybody knows that there is no faction within the party. All these so- called crises are driven by the 2015 contest.” He said.
“Even, when they met with the President, none of them could pinpoint one tangible area of grievance and the party cannot go ahead like this. There must be discipline and a bad precedent should not be allowed. We cannot go on like this. If these people want to go, let them go.”
Meanwhile, there are also indications that PDP may remove Dr. Umaru Dikko as the chairman of its Disciplinary Committee.
Dikko is said to be hospitalised in a London hospital.
The committee was constituted on July 29, but the absence of Dikko has made it impossible for the committee to be inaugurated.
Other members of the committee are Amalete. J. Turner(Deputy Chairman), Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Shuaib Oyedokun, Nana Kadiri, Hussaini Diraki and Senator Emmanuel Agboti.
It is unclear if the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Uche Secondus, would be allowed to chair the committee.
Until now, occupiers of the office were usually allowed to head the committee.