CNPP says undemocratic acts responsible for PDP Crisis.

Culled from the Punch Newspaper 

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has attributed the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party to the despotic and undemocratic tendencies of the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP.

The CNPP explained that the unresolved crisis in the party and the sidelining of some members of the party made the emergence of a parallel PDP inevitable.

Speaking in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on Monday, the Rivers State Chairman of the CNPP, Dr. Manaigbi Dagogo-Jack, said “the undemocratic and despotic practices” of the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP paved the way for a parallel party.

Dagogo-Jack argued that the Tukur-led PDP left many crises in the PDP across the country unresolved, adding that the formation of another PDP led by Kawu Baraje was a reaction to the injustice in the party.

He observed that the Tukur-led PDP had been one-sided on many issues affecting the unity of the PDP, maintaining that the existence of the Baraje-led PDP was a mere expression of members’ right to protest against injustice.

“What is going on in the PDP in the past is a shame to democracy. It is a shame to the party that prides itself as the largest political party in Africa. It has been injustice against one member or the other without any consideration to address the issues of the ground.

“We have seen in the PDP the largest spirit of despotism and undemocratic tendencies and the emergence of a parallel PDP in Abuja on Saturday was a mere reaction against undemocratic practices in the party,” he said.

Dagogo-Jack, however, called on the Kawu Baraje-led PDP to be fair to members of the party, advising that actions that led to the emergence of a parallel PDP should be avoided.

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