As politicians begin the usual subtle moves ahead of the 2015 elections, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has once more, laid the charge that he is being sidelined by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party.
According to him, his name was not on the delegates lists sent by the Adamawa chapter of the party for the August 31 Special National Convention.
[READ: Where’s his name: Atiku is missing from delegates’ list for PDP convention]
The convention, which has been mired in a legal mess but has been cleared to hold, will elect some of the party’s national officers, who recently resigned due to electoral irregularities during a 2012 convention.
And that is not the end of Atiku’s grievances.
He is also not happy that he is not regularly invited for the party’s National Executive Committee and Board of Trustees meetings, which he says is wrong “since he is a statutory delegate as a former Vice President.”
In a protest letter, dated July 11, Atiku said, “My attention has been drawn to a news report of Monday, July 8, 2013. In the said report, the delegates list for the special national convention, submitted by Adamawa State PDP chapter, did not contain my name and further inquiries at the PDP National Secretariat also confirmed the same.
“I have decided to draw your attention to this mistake.”
He said the omission of his name contradicted section 32, subsection 1 (a) of the party’s constitution, which states that the membership of the party’s Board of Trustees shall consist of “all past and serving Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who held or hold the respective posts as members of the party and who are still members of the party.”
He called for a restoration of the respect and privileges conferred on the office of the Vice President and founding fathers of the party by the PDP constitution.
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