Its all about 2015 Candidancy - PDP Governors Want One of Them As President

Political elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State have described the continuous intervention of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum in the Adamawa PDP crisis as a ploy to hijack the party and present one of them as a presidential candidate in 2015.

At a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday, the PDP elders urged President Goodluck Jonathan to move fast to save the party from the tyranny of the governors before it is too late.

On behalf of the group, Dr. Umar Ardo, an antagonist of Governor Murtala Nyako, said the governors were using the Adamawa crisis to test their might to see how far they can go in using it to destabilize the National Secretariat of the PDP so as to project their own interest in 2015.

He said, “It is all about 2015. Anybody that tells you anything contrary is not sincere, they want to impose one of them as the presidential candidate of the party in 2015 and that is why they are defying what the people and the president want.”

The elders also said they would not recognize the newly constituted “PDP committee on Adamawa Crisis and Resolution” as they do not know who established it, and describing the committee as “mysterious.”

Ardo said they only saw an advert on the pages of newspapers asking members to submit memoranda to the committee but that they do not know who set the committee up and what it is supposed to do.

The elders said that as long as the committee remains mysterious, they will not recognize it and will work only with the newly elected executive committee of the party led by Joel Madaki. Sahara