Kaduna PDP Members Decry Gbajabiamila’s Imposition Of Minority Leaders ln House Of Reps

BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – Coalition of PDP Grassroots Mobilisers in Kaduna state has decried the approach of the leadership of the House of Representatives led by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila in attempting to impose on the PDP and other minority parties in the House its own leaders.

Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, Spokesman of the group, Daniel John Maiyaki said the leadership of APC lacks the locus standing to do so and therefore urged it to stop meddling in the affairs of other minority parties.

Maiyaki said; “We call on the National Working Committee and Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to continue to uphold and promote party supremacy against any myriad interest or individual power.

“We urge all PDP members in elective positions to pursue their ambitions in cognizance with the party’s guidelines and constitution and avoid an unholy alliance that will underscore the party’s integrity.”

“It is morally impermissible for any person to meddle in others family’s affairs, elsewhere in the democratic world; it is unconstitutional to behave in such an audacious way.”

The group while expressing its grievances over the crisis that has erupted in the House of Representatives on the heel of the election of Minority Leaders and the utter display of desperation and disloyalty to the PDP by some of its members, noted the veracity of such members to the party has fallen short of devotion.

The group further said; “These members, driven fundamentally by queer motive to emerge leaders of the minority parties in the house, colluded with the leaders of the house and the APC and went through pliable means, in an unconstitutional manner and penciled down leaders of the minority parties.    

“Contrary to the outcome of the collusion, the leadership of the house led by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila lacks the locus standing to impose on the PDP and other minority parties in the house its own leaders.

“Besides, we want those who are embarrassingly collaborating with APC to know that PDP never worked for APC convenience but, for the convenience of Nigerians. And PDP is not in agreement or did not entered into social contract with APC but, with the district of people who elected our members into various elective positions and the platform, in this case, the PDP, which our members used as a platform and rose to prominence.  

“This is why the imposition of Minority leaders in the federal legislature by APC-led leadership is vehemently mooted and roundly condemned by all democratic principles and tenets.

“Ideally, the minority parties in the house would have been allowed to choose their leaders without unduly interference for a peaceful cohabitation to exist between the majority party and the minority parties.

“In the spirit of brotherliness, we are calling on APC leaders: the executive and the legislature to get used to working with unfamiliar bedfellows such that exists in other advanced democratic climes. The relationship between the executive and the legislature must not be 100 per cent cordial; if it must be then it can be at the detriment of check and balance.”