Rivers Congress: PDP Governors’ Forum Vows To Engage NWC

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum has said that it will engage the National Working Committee of the party to revisit the issue of Congresses in Rivers State with a view to correcting the anomaly and allow Governor Siminalayi Fubara take his rightful leadership of the party in the State

In an 8-point Communique read by the Forum’s Chairman and Governor of Bauchi State, Sen. Bala Mohammed, after a meeting held in Jalingo, the Taraba State Capital on Friday, it noted the obvious interference of the Judiciary in the political impasse in Rivers State as court judgments are employed to determine the outcome of the party Congresses.

The meeting which was attended by Governor Siminalayi Fubara along with other PDP Governors’ also tabled other national issues which includes commending the dexterity of the PDP Governors’ in handling the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in their respective States with maturity thereby restraining hoodlums from hijacking it.

“The Forum reiterates that peaceful protests are the inalienable rights of the citizens through which they vent their genuine grievances. The Forum commiserates with the families of those innocent souls that were lost and calls on the Federal Government to ensure fair and speedy trial of those who were arrested.”

The PDP Governors also lamented that rather than undertaking a review of macro-economic and social policies with a view to giving them a human face, the Federal Government has resorted to blackmail and called on the President to show statesmanship

“We call on Mr. President to show statesmanship by restraining his officials from blame games, that make the sub-nationals look bad by mentioning piecemeal interventions that cannot solve the problem. We remain unshaken in our firm resolve to stand with the suffering Nigerian masses and to take all legitimate steps to ameliorate their plight.”

“With regards to the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, we condemn the pronouncements by the President to compromise the election in favour of his Party as well as the systematic intimidation of PDP supporters by the Nigeria Police and call on the Inspector General of Police to call his men to order.”

“The Forum notes with concern, the refusal of the Federal Government to distinguish between the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN revenue and revenue accruing to the Federation which must be allocated in accordance with extant laws.

The Forum therefore called on the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Accountant General of the Federation to be more transparent in obeying the law, particularly section 162 (1) (2) (3), and also called on the Accountant General of the Federation to stop behaving like the Accountant General of the Federal Government and to exercise her role in line with the constitution.

“Therefore, we call for the separation of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and that of the Accountant General of the Federal Government of Nigeria.”