2015: Plateau PDP Crisis Deepens

Following the crisis presently rocking the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the embattled state chairman, Dr Haruna Dabin has said that he has uncovered plans by the party secretary to create disunity among members of the party in the state. The party chairman in a press release yesterday in Jos, disclosed that the party secretary in the state has dished out invitations of a meeting of the State Executive Committee (SEC) to hold today, 16th June, 2014. Dr Dabin disassociated himself from the purported meeting, and said the party secretary was not directed to call for the said meeting. “The chairman and members of the State Working Committee (SWC) are not aware of the purported meeting as convened by the state secretary,” he stated. Dr Dabin, therefore, called on those invited to the said meeting to disregard the call by the secretary, emphasising that the secretary lacks constitutional rights to call for such gathering without directives from the party chairman. The press release reads in part, “The attention of the state PDP chairman, Dr Haruna Dabin, has been drawn to a press statement purported to have been issued by the state secretary of the party convening a meeting of the State Executive Committee (SEC) on Monday, 16th June, 2014 at the Presidential Lodge, Jos. “Members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) should disregard the notice and press statements convening the purported meeting as the aforementioned convener lacks the constitutional powers to convene such a meeting.” “An emergency meeting of the State Working Committee had earlier been slated for Monday, 16th June, 2014 by 10am at the State Secretariat of the party”.