Lamido locks horns with PDP, threatens courtroom motion over nomination kind denial

There isn’t any let-up but within the disaster engulfing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as former Jigawa State Governor and celebration stalwart Sule Lamido, is threatening a authorized showdown if he’s not allowed to buy nomination kinds to contest the place of the celebration’s Nationwide Chairman .

The PDP’s elective nationwide conference is scheduled to carry from the fifteenth to the sixteenth November in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Lamido issued the risk in Abuja on Monday as he stated his efforts to acquire the nomination kinds on the PDP Nationwide Secretariat had been unsuccessful. He accused key celebration officers, together with Nationwide Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Nationwide Organising Secretary Umaru Bature, of complicity within the matter.

Arriving on the PDP headquarters, Wadata Plaza, round 11 a.m. along with his supporters, Lamido was met with closed workplaces and no officers out there to promote him the nomination kind.

He stated the Organising Secretary’s workplace , historically chargeable for the sale of such kinds , was “formally locked,” stopping entry.

“I got here to purchase the shape as required by the celebration’s structure, however to my shock, the workplaces had been shut. Each the Secretary and Organising Secretary claimed that they had no information of the place the kinds had been or how they had been being distributed,” Lamido stated.

He stated that he discovered it unusual that even senior officers of the celebration had been unable to entry their very own workplaces.

Lamido’s frustration comes amid tensions surrounding the PDP’s zoning preparations forward of its 2027 presidential ticket.

On the celebration’s 102nd Nationwide Govt Committee (NEC) assembly held on 25 August, the PDP resolved to zone the presidential ticket to the South, whereas the Nationwide Chairmanship was reserved for the North.

Subsequently, Northern leaders micro-zoned the chairmanship to the North-West and, over the weekend, endorsed former Minister of Particular Duties, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as a consensus candidate.

However Lamido and several other northern stakeholders loyal to him have rejected the endorsement, insisting that they had been excluded from the decision-making course of.

“The North-West by no means met. We had been supposed to carry a gathering on Wednesday, however earlier than that might occur, one other assembly was hurriedly convened on Tuesday to pre-empt ours. Consensus can solely emerge by way of session, not imposition,” Lamido stated.