The breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje on Friday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to address allegations that the faction of the party chaired by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur had concluded plans to bribe members of the National Assembly.
According to National Publicity Secretary of the breakaway faction, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the plot is to massively bribe members of the Federal House of Representatives with a view to getting them to pass a vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan and then quickly follow it up with the impeachment of Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and some other principal officers for their alleged sympathy for the Baraje-led PDP National Executive.
The faction warned the president to call his men to order, as their plans have the capability to plunge the country into avoidable chaos and also portray his administration as promoting corruption to the high heavens.
“Information reaching us indicates that the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur faction of PDP, working in concert with some Presidency officials, has set about to induce members of the House of Representatives with a view to passing a vote of confidence on President Jonathan and impeaching their principal officers,” Eze wrote in a statement on Friday.
“Part of their strategy is to place advertisements in major national newspapers in the country starting from next week, praising a non-performing Presidency to the high heavens so as to water the ground for President Jonathan’s expected declaration for the 2015 presidential contest.
“Each member is expected to receive 25,000 USD (about N2.5M) to sign the advertorial endorsing the president. The plan is to commence the impeachment of principal officers of the House after the publication of these adverts. We are aware of the identities of those involved in this shady business being coordinated by an influential member of the discredited Tukur faction from the Southern part of the country.”
Eze lamented that this is happening at a time when poverty is ravaging the land and children are kept at home because of the refusal of the Federal Government to keep the agreement it reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since 2009.
“Passing a vote of confidence on President Jonathan and celebrating him in the papers as these undemocratic elements plan to do is not only insensitive but also amounts to celebrating the death traps called federal roads and celebrating darkness after the billions of naira squandered on a non-functional power sector.
“The impunity associated with the Tukur-led PDP is yet another proof that we are now in a desperate situation where these failed politicians are capable of doing anything in order to achieve their evil aims. But they will surely fail.
“We urge our members all over the world to continue with fasting and prayers as we collectively seek God’s face on how to resolve the orchestrated crisis in our great party and thus minimize the heavy toll which it is taking on the Jonathan Administration.
“The general public is hereby urged to ignore the advertorials when it starts to come out by Monday as there is no substance in most of the contents of the advertorial.”
