Atiku wants party to set up screen panel
The Atiku Abubakar
Campaign Orgnaisation (ACO) has challenged the leadership of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to constitute a panel to screen its
presidential aspirants. Mr Abubakar and Sarah Jubril are the two
opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential ticket of
the party.
The Director
General of ACO, Ben Obi also expressed worry over the status of the
Electoral Act 2010 after the dumping of the controversial clause which
sought to make the senators and representatives members of the National
Executive Committee (NEC) of their parties.
Mr Obi, who
addressed a press conference in Abuja yesterday,said it is shameful
that ,22 days to the PDP presidential primary election, the party has
not yet constituted a panel to screen its presidential aspirants .
“We urge the party
to constitute this committee quickly so that party members and the
generality of Nigerians will know the candidate that will represent
them” he said. “We also plead with the party to extend an invitation to
the various presidential campaign organisations on the issues raised
above and consider their suggestions.”
The campaign head
commended the stakeholders that worked against the clause in electoral
act , he advised Nigerians to be vigilant to ensure that the deleted
materials do not re-surface in the final version of the act.
He however
recognised the humble stance of the lawmakers as they yielded to the
wise counsel of Nigerians, he further urged them to finalise and
publish the 2010 Electoral act so that it can be in effect for the
forthcoming elections.
He alleged that the
opponents of Mr Abubakar are still wallowing in the habit of smear
campaign, fear-mongering, slander, character assassination and mischief.
“We are not perturbed in the least by sponsored petitions and
oracular predictions,we are also not bothered that the NTA and a few
other electronic media organs have been turned to personal property of
incumbent power authorities and that seditious materials daily drench
the airwaves, with the NBC turning a blind eye.”
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