Suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola; a former Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje; a former National Deputy Chairman of the party, Dr. Sam Jaja and PDP former National Vice-Chairman, North West, Ambassador Ibrahim Kazaure, have vowed not to appear before the party’s Disciplinary Committee headed by Dr. Umaru Dikko.
According to their words, even though they are yet to be invited by the Umaru Dikko-led Disciplinary Committee, they will not honour such an invitation, because the committee is not known to the leadership of the party.
They also added that they would not confer legitimacy on the committee with their appearance.
As it was mentioned in the statement, the suspended members' first reaction was to ignore the reports, as the PDP Constitution does not recognize the existence of the "so-called Dikko Committee".
"Besides, the fact that the committee – if at all it exists – did not have the courtesy to directly invite the accused to appear before it strips it of any atom of seriousness," - the statement reads.
Thus, noting this fact, the above mentioned leaders do not plan to appear before the Committee on November 27, or at any other date for that matter.
"The committee is an illegality and alien to PDP and its members. It is not our intention to confer legitimacy on such an illegal contraption by self-serving politicians intent on destroying a house the building of which they were not a part."
The National Publicicty Secretary of New PDP, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, who delivered the statement, added that the committee would only be functional when the National Executive Committee of the party gives it approval, adding that in the absence of this, whatever function the committee is deemed to be performing remains null and void.
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