A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has suggested that the two warring camps in the party may finally come together.
According to him, this was part of the issues raised in a meeting held by the Kabiru Turaki-led National Working Committee and the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT, after the ruling of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
Sani said they have to embrace the issue of reconciliation which the Appeal Court propounded earlier.
Also, a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had after the appeal court ruling, advised the factions to bury the hatchet to ensure that the party gets the chance to participate in the 2027 election.
Saraki said the two factions should find a way to work together as a party ahead of the elections.
Asked if the Turaki faction, which he belongs to, would be willing to find a way to work with the faction backed by the FCT minister for a national convention in the interest of the party, Sani said, “Well, the the issue of a national convention again will amount to double jeopardy. We’ve had our convention. And then they want to hold a convention, on what premise will they hold a convention?
“First, the subject matter of the Convention…, the people who claim to have derived that authority and have the legitimacy within their camp, to hold a convention have been confirmed suspended by the appeal court. They were confirmed as having been suspended at that time and could not have performed any other function relating to the party.
“So where would they derive the authority to go now and do a convention? This is the issue.
“Every other thing that Bukola (Saraki) said, apart from the part he said that we should join them in their convention, I believe, is in tandem with the thinking of the party.
“Like I told you, three issues were formulated (in the NWC, BoT meeting). One was to approach the Supreme Court, there was a second one, and then the third one to embrace reconciliation as propounded by the Court of Appeal in Ibadan.
“NWC and BoT met yesterday to formulate three grounds where the party will be heading to. The first is the possibility for us to go to the Supreme Court. This the second one I will not give you, because it’s our strategy. You know, it’s not supposed to be let out of the bag. But the last one is to embrace the issue of reconciliation as propounded by the courts.
“Now these are the three issues that will be debated today at the expanded meeting of the NEC, and then decisions taken there will now be forwarded.”
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