{"id":111990,"date":"2024-05-17T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=111990"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:30:47","slug":"group-accuses-damagun-others-in-plot-to-reinstate-sacked-apc-lawmakers-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/group-accuses-damagun-others-in-plot-to-reinstate-sacked-apc-lawmakers-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Group accuses Damagun, others in plot to reinstate sacked APC lawmakers in Rivers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The acting National Chairman of People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Iliya Damagun, has been accused by the PDP Stakeholders Forum of allegedly receiving the sum of $2m along with the party\u2019s National Legal Adviser on behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC) so that the party will allow the lawyers of the FCT Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, led by Dr. Joshua Musa, SAN to file secret processes to stop the Court from declaring vacant the seats of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who left PDP to APC.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Mallam Abubakar Isa, Publicity Secretary of the group, it alleged that one of the members of the NWC who was privy to the deal confided in him that though he has received his own share of the money, he was not happy with the way the party was drifting.<\/p>\n<p>Isa further alleged that the processes will be filed by Dr. Joshua Musa, SAN, a well-known Wike\u2019s lawyer on behalf of PDP and will vehemently maintain that the Court should not sack the Rivers lawmakers, who defected to another political party in violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis might have been the reason Wike boasted on Saturday to the member of the House of Assembly from Ogu-Bolo State constituency, Hon. Davids Okobiriari Arnold that nobody would remove him and declare his seat vacant in the Assembly. The court action is to allow the 27 defected lawmakers time to impeach Governor Fubara and restore the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike as the leader of the Party in the State with unfettered access to the Rivers treasury,\u201d the statement further alleged.<\/p>\n<p>But, reacting to the news of this revelation, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) declared that if this was the current modus operandi in the PDP where the leadership will support members of another party to remove a governor elected on its platform, then that would be the official end of the PDP as a political party.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition, in a statement on Thursday, urged PDP leaders to reconvene if the alleged court papers are filed on Friday and force Damagun-led National Working Committee out before they bury the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>CUPP said, \u201cThe FCT Minister\u2019s behaviour is getting out of hand. This unruly behaviour shouldn\u2019t be allowed to persist. If what we are hearing is the current modus operandi in the PDP where the leadership will support members of another party to remove a Governor elected on the platform of their party, then that would be the official end of the PDP as a political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge PDP leaders to reconvene if the \u201devil court\u201d papers are filed tomorrow and force Damagun National Working Committee out before they bury the PDP.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acting National Chairman of People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Iliya Damagun, has been accused by the PDP Stakeholders Forum of allegedly receiving the sum of $2m along with the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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