FORMER vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described the omission of his name from the list of names of Adamawa State’s delegates to the up-coming Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) special convention.
Atiku in a letter written to the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said he learnt of the omission through a newspaper publication and after waiting for response from the party’s national secretariat, Abuja, endlessly, he decided to write the chairman.
Atiku said: “after waiting for a public statement from the party, correcting or refuting the abnormality in vain, I decided to draw your attention to this mistake.”
He said his letter was based on the premise that he had been granted waiver on return to the party based on the party’s constitution, section 8, sub section 8 (b) of the constitution of the PDP 2012 as amended “a person who desires to rejoin the party after leaving it, unless given a waiver by the National Working Committee (NEC) of our party, be placed on probation for a period not less than 1 year.”
This, Atiku reminds Tukur that this section had been met at the 53th meeting of the NEC of the party held on September 15,2010 at the party secretariat, “approved the application of the Adamawa State Executive Committee for my waiver alongside similar applications from Imo, Abia, Edo, Anambra and Kogi States.”
Atiku further stated that he participated in the presidential primaries of the party based on the waiver as well as other party activities, saying his return to the party predated the 2012 constitution amendment.
“It is in this regard, that I consider the omission of my name as a mistake since it contradicts Section 32 sub section 1(a) of our party Constitution which states that Board of Trustees members of the party shall consist of “all past and serving Presidents and vice presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who held or hold the respective post as members of the party and who are still members of the party.
“As a bonafide member of our party, I look forward to the respect and privileges conferred on the office of the vice president and Founding fathers of the party by our party Constitution. I therefore request for a correction and restitution of my right to attend the firth coming special national Convention of our great party and also membership of the Board of Trustees,” Atiku asked.
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