Jonathan’s Aide Says Rebranding PDP Will Fail

Political adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, has called the rebranding move of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a wasted effort.

Gulak, on Friday, November 20, make jest of the national leadership of PDP on its rebranding move, saying it is a sheer waste of time.

Gulak doubted the rebranding of the party ahead of 2019 fo

llowing its defeat at the presidential election after 16 years. He noted that the lack of internal democracy and impunity on the part of the leadership of PDP as the cause of its defeat by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The former Political Adviser insisted that for the rebranding to succeed, the present National Working Committee, NWC must be properly constituted.

Gulak who explained that he dragged the PDP NWC to court as part of moves to right the wrong said: “I’m from the North-east, having exhausted all internal mechanism to ensure that the constitutional provisions are adhered to and complied with and having also neglected, failed and refused to comply with the provision of the constitution, I decided to file an action in court. This is challenging the continued existence of ‎NWC without being properly constituted. That is my case in court and it is on behalf of myself and the entire North-east zone consisting of six states that have been excluded and ignored by the Uche Secondus led committee.

“We as a zone will not accept that we are not part of PDP, we as a zone cannot be ignored by Uche Secondus and his members. We as a zone like all other zones must be part of mechanism and operations of the PDP. The North-east zone after the elections has two PDP states, South-west has two PDP states, South-south all PDP, the South-east all PDP except Imo state, North-west has no PDP and it is part and parcel of PDP because it has the National Treasurer and National Organising Secretary.

“The entire North-east zone has nobody in the NWC‎ and as such the Constitution does not envisage that. We should not be shortchanged, we should not be excluded.”

Gulak also addressed the issue of the vacant position of party chairman which has been vacant since the resignation of former party cbairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu on May 29. According to the constitution of the party, a replacement is supposed to come from the North-east zone.

He said: “You are aware that on the 29th of May, 2015 the former chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu resigned his position as the party chairman and a vacancy was created by his resignation. By the constitution of the party, somebody from North-east is supposed to replace Muazu.

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