PDP Expels Former Guber Aspirant, Abubakar Ibrahim

The People Democratic Party, (PDP) governorship aspirant in the November 2019 election in Kogi State, Abubakar Ibrahim, has been expelled from the party for alleged involvement in anti-party activities.

Ibrahim, who is also the son of former Kogi state Governor Ibrahim Idris , was found guilty of his actions by the Disciplinary Committee set up by his home PDP Icheke Ward in Omala Local Government Area to investigate allegations against him.

The letter and notice of expulsion in accordance with chapter ten and section 57 of the PDP Constitution (as amended) which signed by the Ward Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Icheke, Sunday Idakwoji and made available to journalists in Lokoja on Wednesday reads:

“The Disciplinary Committee set up by the PDP, Icheke Ward to investigate allegations against you, (Abubakar Ibrahim) has submitted its report and found you guilty of the offences.

” After due consideration of the report and your blunt refusal to appear before the disciplinary committee to defend yourself of the allegations leveled against you, we the members of Icheke Ward Executive Council of PDP at a meeting on the 15th day of April, 2020 have unanimously resolved to expel you from our party.

“We are by this notice now, therefore, conveying to you the said party resolution that you have been expelled from PDP by Icheke Ward Executive”

The petition against Abubakar Ibrahim, which was investigated and found him guilty include; challenging the outcome of the PDP governorship primaries which declared Musa Wada as its candidate in Court without resorting to the party as required by the party constitution.

“This action of his according to the petition is a contravention of section 58(1) (L) of the PDP constitution (as amended in 2017). Secondly, Abubakar Ibrahim was alleged to have never participated in the party’s meetings or any other official activities of the party either at ward or local government level which contravenes section 58(I) (e) of the constitution of the party (as amended, 2017).

“Thirdly, the records of the party shows that Abubakar Ibrahim is never a financial member of the party at Icheke Ward level which contravenes section 58(I) (f) of the constitution.”

In another development, the Niger state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Engineer Mohammad Imam, has disclosed that 33 members of the party are facing expulsion and other disciplinary measures.

Briefing newsmen in Minna, Imam said that these members had taken the party to court without exhausting all avenues for reconciliation and settlement. “We have had running battles in the court of law regarding internal cases. Our members who lost primaries took the party to court. There are 33 internal cases from those who are dissatisfied with our primaries and have gone to court,” he stated.

The chairman stated the party had won all the cases with “all the cases were struck out in favour of APC.”

He said that the party had decided to invoke its constitutional provision, which stated that once a member takes the party to court without exhausting all avenues, the person ceases to be a member of the party.

“We are not unaware of the constitutional provision of the party. The local government election primaries went free and fair but some recalcitrant party members decided to take the party to court.

“We know the party constitutional provision that once you take the party to court without exhausting all avenues, you are deemed not to be members of the party.

“The working committee will meet and deliberate on those that took us to court. Since we have defeated them, even at appeal, then the constitutional provision of the party will take its due course.

“If we leave them at the party, they will become a virus and become more deadly than COVID-19. The party will take steps about them.”