…Slams Makinde, Bala Mohammed For Their Roles In Ibadan’s Botched’ Convention

The National Vice Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) South-West, Adedeji Doherty, has warned the former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Bode George, to desist from his incessant criticisms of its National leader and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, otherwise he would be expelled from the party.

Reacting to the Supreme Court judgment of last Thursday, Doherty maintained that it was timely and expected to go through the way it had gone.

He, however, insisted that the PDP will henceforth wield its big stick to sanction any recalcitrant members who want to play the role of a spoiler.

”We won’t hesitate to expel Chief Bode George from his ward and local government in Lagos State if he continues to malign Wike in the media again. Enough is enough!”

The South West Vice Chairman said like he predicted last year that the south West convention that Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde spearheaded without recourse to the statutory framework of the party that Congress from ward to state level must have been concluded leading to a national convention was to further dwindling the fortunes of the PDP, adding that it was liken to a Biblical harlot who told the King to divide the living baby into two when she knew hers was the dead child just to even score with her colleagues who is the rightful owner of the life baby.

Continuing, he said if they’re genuine in their pursuit, they would have met Wike to reconcile with the party after the appeal court judgment, but instead they proceeded to the supreme court when they knew that the timeline of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is very tight in order to accommodate the process seamlessly.

Doherty was particularly irked by the attitude of Governor Makinde, whom he accused of coming to Lagos from Ibadan in 2019 to disrupt his election as National Ex-Officio.

”I can assure you, no political party worth its salt would admit Seyi Makinde. You claimed you are working for the PDP, and at the same time you assembled people at Ibadan, claiming that you’re working towards a coalition. Who does that?”

On the future of the PDP, given the exodus of some of its leaders, Doherty says the future is brighter and becomes brighter each day the party wins in court.

”The court experience is a bitter-sweet pill. It brings an end to the so-called factionalization of members,” he added.

Doherty, who referenced the comment credited to the sacked Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Kabiru Turaki-led NWC, Senator Adolphus Wabara, who said the Supreme Court affirmed the suspension of Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Umar Bature and Ajibade, said the former Senate President was being smart by half.

“The Supreme Court struck out their appeal. So what’s Senator Wabara talking about? In any case, you have the appellant and defendant. How can you say there is no winner when the apex court nullified their ‘amala ‘ convention held in Ibadan?”

”It’s unfortunate that some older people won’t respect themselves. How do you now want young people to respect them? Sen Wabara called a meeting of BoT, and he was not there physically.

“Even Chief George, who has made it his rhetoric that ‘the BoT is the conscience’ of the PDP and would take over the running of the party during a crisis. Where is that written in our constitution?

”Now they are jumping out of the party. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi has joined the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, and we learned Makinde too is on his way out. If they truly believed in the party, they would have joined hands to salvage it.”