Special Adviser to the President on Political Affair, Ahmed Gulak, said on Monday in Abuja that the PDP had uncovered the moles in its fold sent to destabilise the party.<\/p>\n
Gulak stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n
He was reacting to the crisis in PDP which deepened on Saturday when some governors walked out of the party\u2019s special national convention to form a splinter group.<\/p>\n
Gulak, who did not specifically name the moles, alleged that they were sent by the opposition with the aim of breaking the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe opposition out there wants the party to split and there are moles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey sent moles in the cloak of PDP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have discovered them and Insha \u2013Allah (God\u2019s willing), all PDP stakeholders, especially our field commanders who are governors have discovered this, and we are talking,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Gulak said he was surprised that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, whom, he said, had benefitted mostly from PDP could lead the breakaway faction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprise because Atiku is supposed to know more than any other person that there is no party like PDP.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe once left PDP and went to ACN and he came back to PDP because he discovered that outside PDP, there is no other party.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had to come back and he was even given the waiver to contest the primaries election in 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cAtiku should be grateful to PDP. Atiku is indebted to PDP and the best way to continue to pay the debt is to protect the party not to destabilise it,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He gave the assurance that the development would not lead to the demise of PDP but would rather make it stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cPDP has been there from 1998. It is only PDP that has still maintained its name and identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other people you are talking about started as AD, transformed to AC, then to ACN and now APC.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know they have lost their identity. It is only PDP that has consistently maintained its identity and name.<\/p>\n
Gulak noted that the meeting between the President and some of the breakaway governors Sunday night was part of the urgent reconciliation moves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President had useful discussions with them and God\u2019s willing these things will be things of the past.
\n\u201cPolitics is about interests and whatever somebody says or does is on how his or her interest can be protected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have put on the table what they want and what it should be, and the leader (the President) has carefully listened to and analysed\u00a0 it and we will keep on talking,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Asked whether the breakaway governors stood their ground on the removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the party\u2019s national chairman, Gulak said the issue was a difficult task for the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot remove the national chairman like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was elected and you will remember that of all the offices, INEC observed that only the position of the national chairman and the financial secretary were properly done.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why we had do to the special national convention to properly elect the other officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are processes, there are provisions of the institution, there are electoral acts; we should not act outside the laws.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must act between the extant laws of the land because the PDP is a law -abiding party, we must entrench internal democracy,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Gulak pleaded with the party leaders, senior stakeholders and other members to embrace the dialogue in resolving the crisis. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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