- The New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) appoints Yakubu Dogara to head a five-man team
- The team is to commence meeting with a committee from the presidency over its grievances
- The team from the presidency has Nigeria's vice president, Yemi Osinbajo
Speaker Yakubu Dogara is to head a five-member team of the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as moves to resolve the dispute within the ruling political organisation continue.
Daily Trust reports that the five-man team would meet with the presidency officials from Monday, June 4, to resolve the dispute which is threatening to tear the party apart.
The report quoted sources as saying Dogara’s name along with four others including Barnabas Gemade, Danjuma Goje and Adamu Aliero from Benue, Gombe and Kebbi states had been submitted to the presidency. The chairman of the nPDP bloc in the APC, Abubakar Kawu Baraje, is also to serve as a member of the panel.
NAIJ.com understands that they will meet four other members appointed by the presidency and the all APC, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
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“We have submitted the names of the five people that were agreed. They’re headed by Speaker Dogara, while Baraje, Sen Goje, Gemade and Adamu Aliero are to serve as members,” one of the sources said.
Asked why those chosen were mostly northerners, the source said: “No, we only considered the leadership.
“Our interest is good governance, respect for the rule of law and the way our congresses were conducted. Those are the issues we want them to resolve.
“Since we submitted the names, we’re waiting for them to invite our people. They’re the ones to give the time for the meeting so that the issues will be resolved.”
In a related development, the deputy national chairman (north) of the APC, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, has confirmed that discussions with members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) will continue on Monday, June 4, in Abuja.
Shuaibu, the representative of the APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at the talks with the nPDP members, said they would reconvene on Monday, June 4, with a smaller group of eight which would comprise Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the attorney-general and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami and five representatives of the former nPDP members.
“When we got to the meeting venue in Aguda House, the vice president felt we were too many. He said for the meeting to achieve any meaningful result, we needed a much smaller group.
“He suggested that nPDP brings three representatives, and then himself, the attorney-general and myself to make up three so that we have six.
“But they (nPDP) insisted that they needed more than three representatives and we finally settled on five. From there, we went into general discussions; nothing specific.
“We said when they (nPDP) are ready with their five representatives, and then we will sit down and go into the business of discussing the specific demands. There was no time during Monday’s meeting.
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“The condition was given that Sen Bukola Saraki’s Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) trial must be withdrawn. I don’t know where they got that story from. I have a strong feeling that whoever wrote that story was only being speculative because nobody could have said that,” Shuaibu said.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that the former chairman of the now defunct nPDP bloc within the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, on Saturday, May 26, unveiled a list of prominent aggrieved members of the ruling party, who attended a meeting where the group considered three options that they might take soon.
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