The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State may be heading for the rocks as the party’s aspirants in the 2015 general elections are seeking a refund of campaign expenses they incurred in the party primaries.
The complainants, who go by the name 2015 Taraba PDP Aspirants Forum, held a meeting in Karu, Abuja yesterday, where they lamented that the PDP lured them into making huge expenses, only for the party to hand pick its candidates without conducting primaries.
They also lamented that the party was recycling old political hands without consideration for new entrants.
The Protem Chairman of the forum, Mr. Bitrus Rimamnde Nuhu, said “That the PDP did not conduct any party primaries in Taraba State is a fact. And we ask? Under which principles of social justice and fair play do the dysfunctional party operatives expect the aspirants at all levels to forgo their hard earned money, paid under the guise of nomination and other election campaign expenses, when they ab initio did not intend to conduct any party primaries whence they worked from answer to solution in order to handpick candidates of their choice?”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio over allegation of financial crimes. Daily Trust gathered that Akpabio honoured the invitation by the anti-graft agency to explain allegations of looting of the state’s funds during his tenure. Sources told our correspondent that Senator Akpabio was being interrogated late yesterday evening at the Abuja head offices of the Commission. He was spotted at the EFFC office in company of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, at about 5:20pm. Akpabio’s arrest yesterday is fallout of the petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, who had on June 8 this year petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the EFCC, calling for Senator Akpabio’s probe and accusing him of looting. The petitioner had earlier on Wednesday adopted his petition and provided more details to the anti-graft agency on the allegations against the minority leader of People...
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