Presidential Race: Save our party from destruction, Kogi SDP beg National leaders

The G19 Presidential Campaign Team of Prof. Jerry Gana of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, has called on credible leaders and teeming members of the party to arise and rescue SDP from the hands “of traders, merchants and transactionalists who are heal bent to destroy the party”.

Our Kogi State Correspondent reports that the call was contained in a Press Statement issued Tuesday January 22 by the Secretary of SDP, Kogi State Chapter, Barrister Paul Abraham.

The statement wondered why the leadership of the SDP purportedly refused to obey the Court Order by forwarding the name of Prof. Jerry Gana to INEC as the Presidential Candidate of the party as directed by the Court.

"Without any ambiguity, the matter of the Presidential Candidacy of the SDP in the 2019 election ought to be fully rested by now, given the subsisting judgment of the FCT High Court. Unfortunately, the mishandling of this weighty matter, and the open bias displayed by the National Chairman of the Party, Chief Olu Falae  in the face of a clear Order of a Court of competent jurisdiction, remain incomprehensible and his motives and integrity questionable. It has now become very clear that the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the party Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, without recourse to other members of the NWC have continued to act as though the party is a private venture. We state categorically that it has always been obvious, and we say so on good authority, that the duo have a script other than the interest of the party, which they have manipulated thus far and would henceforth continue no more. Otherwise, how does one explain their stand on this matter, in spite of the fact that majority of NWC members, State Chairmen and party faithful across the country, have continued to cry and shout, insisting that Prof Jerry Gana’s name be submitted to INEC, instead of acceding to the demand of the majority, the duo have resorted to direct threats, intimidation and suspension of members who dare to speak out," the statement stressed.

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