Don’t pre-empt us, PDP committee cautions members

May 16, 2015

 

The Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party Post-election Review Committee, Senator Walid Jubrin, has cautioned members of the party against pre-empting the findings and recommendations of the panel.

Jibrin said the committee was not set up to ensure soft-landing for embattled members of the PDP National Working Committee.

The Committee’s Secretary admonished the party faithful to exercise patience, assuring that his team would discharge its assignment without fear or favour.

There had been insinuations that the 17-member Committee headed by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was set up to ward off agitation for the sack of the national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu and his team.

Jubrin dismissed speculation that other statutory organs of the party were not consulted by the NWC before the Post-election Review Committee was constituted.

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He said, “Every right thinking person would first agree that there must be a post-mortem of something that has gone wrong before you identify who has gone wrong. The most important thing to this Committee is its terms of reference and we need to look at it to give our recommendations.

“I don’t expect people to pre-empt what we are going to do. If you say some people have formed this for their own interest, I think you are pre-empting and you aren’t being fair to the PDP.

“Wait and see the outcome of this Committee’s work. As far as we are concerned, we have accepted this 17-man Committee and we have all agreed to be party to this and we will continue (our work).”

The committee’s scribe explained that the team visited President Goodluck Jonathan, and also met with Chairman of Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, as well as the Senate President, David Mark, to seek their understanding and cooperation, adding that the party leaders had pledged their support for the panel.

Jibrin stated that his Committee may seek for the extension of the three weeks’ deadline given to it by the party leadership to deliver on its assignment.