Politics New PDP Gives FCT Minister 48 Hours to Re-open Adamawa State Govt. Lodge & Apologize

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In a statement released by Chukwuemeka Eze, the National Publicity Secretary of the breakaway faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party yesterday in Abuja, the faction has reacted to the recent sealing off of its secretariat, located at the Adamawa State govt.’s lodge in Abuja.

“The sealing off of the Adamawa Governor’s Lodge by the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, only demonstrates his lack of understanding about the status of a Governor’s Lodge. What the minister has brazenly done is to indirectly attack the people and Government of Adamawa State in his desperation to impress the PDP tin god, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

“We advise the misguided minister to within 48 hours not only apologise to the people and Government of Adamawa State but also to unseal the Lodge, which serves as our temporary National Secretariat following the sealing of our National Secretariat by the police. The Government of Adamawa State has not committed any offence by allowing us to use the Lodge as contact office.”

According to OSUN DEFENDER, the statement also demanded that the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Lodge, Legacy House (PDP Secretariat Annex) and other venues where political meetings are purportedly held, should be immediately sealed if the sealing of the Adamawa Governor’s lodge,which serves as the temporary secretariat of the faction by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, was to be justified.

The statement accused the FCT minister of usurping powers that do not belong to him, that the decision to seal the Adamawa Governor’s lodge was not only unjustifiable but evidence of impunity by some overzealous people in the current administration, who are hell-bent on “blackmailing President Goodluck Jonathan and portraying him as draconian and undemocratic President”.

“Such people must be stopped forthwith! We, therefore, appeal to Mr. President not only to call Senator Mohammed to order but also sanction him accordingly for portraying Jonathan’s government as lawless, evil and anti-people,” it said.