New Faction: PDP, Fayose Kick, Blasts Members Of Splinter Group

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that it will not be distracted by those who have allowed themselves to be used by forces from another political party.

A group made up of about five men last Wednesday opened a parallel secretariat for the Party, in Abuja.

The five men are Prince Obi Nwosu, Alhaji Hassan Adamu, Chief Olusola Akindele, Chief Godwin Duru and Franklyne Edede.

At its inaugural press briefing, the group, led by Nwosu, described the PDP National Convention as a sham, vowing to do everything within its powers to reclaim the leadership of the party.

Nwosu, who contested the National Youth Leader position and lost, claimed that ‎the process of selecting the current national working committee (NWC) was concluded days before the convention.

“Most tragically, there was no election on that day; but a selection of predetermined persons who were eventually announced as new NWC members,” he declared.

Reacting to the development, Kola Ologbodiyan, Spokesman of the PDP, said the group was only making outlandish claims in the media.

Describing the emergence of the new faction as comical, the opposition party said it would remain unperturbed.

In the same vein, Ayodele Fayose, the Governor of Ekiti State and the Chairman, PDP’s Governors’ Forum, said those who have identified themselves as Fresh PDP members ought to be arrested and jailed for disrupting the nation’s peace.

According to a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor said, “in a civilised society those parading themselves as Fresh PDP members should have been clamped into jail.

“They are simply charlatans. I won’t be surprised and we are doing investigations to know those who are behind them.

“In a society like Nigeria, where we need a virile opposition, we need to continually put the government of the day on its toes for them to know that Nigeria is greater than all of us, some miscreants would just issue press statement and say they are a splinter group or whatever they call themselves.

“I urge Nigerians to ignore them. When I saw them on the Internet, they were faceless people I could not recognise, so they remain a set of jobless people and miscreants.”