Former governor of Niger state and leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Mu’azu Aliyu has on members not to be intimidated into leaving the party.
Aliyu was last seen in the state during the last Eid el Kabir celebrations where he hosted a cultural extravaganza in his Minna resident.
The former governor, who was besieged by a mammoth crowd of party members, loyalists and admirers when he arrived Paiko area from Abuja, later addressed the crowd in his residence.
According to him, the state congress held by a faction of the party penultimate week, was in liaison with an alleged bought-over North central leadership of the party.
He added that the National Working Committee of the PDP was taken aback by the illegality and brazen abuse of the rule of law by some desperate politicians.
Aliyu said that the action by a select group, was absurd and totally wrong, adding that “those who thought they could seize the realm of the party’s executives by whipping ethnic sentiments and displaying other forms of bigotry, would, in no distant time, be placed in their deserved positions.”
He, therefore, appealed to genuine members of the party to remain calm and await the unfolding events, as all necessary steps were in the works to give the party a sense of order, sanity and diligence.
“Those who organised and took part in that sham are enemies of our great party in Niger state. Please, don’t leave or abandon the PDP,” he said.
He alleged that a band of disgruntled self-seeking persons populated the faction that organised the congress without giving notice for the congress and wondered if democracy could be so manipulated and muzzled as was done by self seekers.
