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Crisis factionalises DPP
in Bauchi
From SULE ALIYU, Bauchi
Few months of its existence as a registered political party in Nigeria, the
Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) in Bauchi state which is yet to even
commission its new secretariat, is enmeshed in crisis.
According to investigation, the crisis started from the party’s wards
executive council members’ elections that were supervised on the directives
of the party’s state leader, Hon. Abdulahi Matori by the state deputy
chairman, Alhaji Al-Ameen Sani Mohammed.
After the succesful conduct of the elections that were not in favour of the
leader, the Al-Ameen committee was alleged to have fielded and supported
candidates of their choice to exalted positions against the wish of other
state executive members. This was considered a game plan to pave way for Al-Ameen’s
gubernatorial ambition in 2007, having once contested the same position on
the platform of the former party, Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2003.
Investigation revealed that the action of Al-Ameen was viewed as a serious
gross misconduct and insubordination that was intended to ridicule the party
that claims to be more democratic than any other political party in the
state presently.
In reaction, the state executive council of the party suspended the state
deputy chairman indefinitely in a letter made available to journalists and
signed by the state administrative secretary, Malam Ibrahim Imam with ref.
No. BS/DP/053 dated November 13, 2006.
When contacted for his reaction on the suspension, the embattled state
deputy chairman said the action is unconstitutional, null and void, and was
only meant to please the wishes of Abdullahi Matori who claimed leadership
of the party, without substance and if the national secretariat kept mute on
the dictatorial tendencies of Matori at this crucial period, the party may
end up in the dustbin of history even before the 2007 general elections, he
said.
Al-Ameen added that the purported suspension was not the collective decision
of the executive members to which he belonged but that of Matori to please
himself and be in a better position to destroy the party as he did to the
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), stressing that “the party’s constitution
was not used. I was not invited to defend myself or even queried but was
told that I was suspended despite my respect to the directives of Matori to
conduct the elections”.
He promised to remain loyal and committed to the ideal of the party no
matter the intimidation, threats and frustrations.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 2006