ABUJA April 11, (THEWILL) - Ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dissociated itself from a controversial organization operating as "PDP Leadership Forum."
The group is said to be made up of elements loyal to ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who are apparently not happy with the turnout of events since the installation of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali in statement in Abuja today (Sunday) emphasized that the organization which is said to have former federal legislators at its leadership has nothing to do with the ruling party and does not represent its interest in any form.
Alkali said the group is made up of some politicians who have not been happy with the installation of Jonathan as Acting President and have been employing various methods to derail the system.
He said those behind the organization have been trying various methods to sow seeds of discord in the party in order to divide it and weaken its resolve to approach the 2011 elections as one united entity.
Alkali described the organization as faceless and unconstitutional adding that it has been illegally using the address of National Secretariat of the party to "propagate falsehoods against the leadership of the party."
The statement made available to THEWILL said, "From our findings, they are unhappy over the efforts made by the national leadership of our party in conjunction with the National Assembly and the Governors Forum to strengthen the hands of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to assume office as the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"Having been exposed for the fraud that they are, they have gone underground to regroup and device further destructive methods against the smooth running of our great Party, the PDP.
"After painstaking efforts to determine the identity of these persons and their sponsors, we have discovered the leaders of these groups to be some former top legislators who are now virtually jobless and who have used every available means to draw attention to themselves. They are being backed up by a media mogul whose electronic outfit is always available for subversive activities.
"They are now operating under another unconstitutional and faceless organization called 'PDP Leadership Forum.'
"The Peoples Democratic Party wishes to advise all law abiding members to steer clear of these people as they are hell bent on sowing seeds of discord and weakening our resolve to approach the forthcoming elections as one united entity."
The PDP spokesman noted that most of those in the group held sensitive positions in the past and should be held to render account for what he described as their "misdeeds."
He therefore charged all PDP members to close ranks and resist attempts by the group to derail the party.
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