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FFK, Nnadozie on the chopping board as PDP mulls internal cleansing

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Former minister of aviation, and Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) during the March 28 presidential election, Femi Fani-Kayode and the party’s deputy national organizing secretary, Okey Nnadozie may have incured the wrath of the party for their actions and words during and after the campaigns.

While Fani-Kayode may be sanctioned for launching a media war against the party’s leadership, Nnadozie on his part may incur sanctions over the whereabouts of the party’s money which was supposed to be paid to state chairmen of the party at the last national convention.

The PDP, ordered the immediate probe of Fani-Kayode, for criticising the party’s leadership and calling for its resignation when he accused two unnamed members of the party’s National Working Committee of working for the opposition All Progressives Congress.

In a dramatic response Wednesday, the party ordered the PDP in Osun State, Fani-Kayode’s home state, to immediately investigate and punish the former minister.

In a letter signed by its National Secretary, Wale Oladipo, the party mandated the PDP in Osun to first establish whether Mr. Fani-Kayode has been a “registered and financial member”.

If Mr. Fani-Kayode is a member, the party said, he should be punished severely, otherwise, he should be treated as a usurper.

Nnadozie on his part has been directed to appear at the party’s office in Abuja on Thursday. The NWC said it has set up a seven-man disciplinary committee headed by Micheal Abdul.

Reacting, Fani-Kayode says he cannot be intimidated by threat of the NWC‎ to discipline him for calling for their sack.

Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, he said “In a sane clime, party members should be able to criticise their colleagues when they go wrong.

“Did they ask for Gov. Ayo Fayose to be disciplined, ‎did they query Gov. Babangida Aliyu and Gov. Sule Lamido?”

According to him, these persons have at different occasions asked for the resignation of the PDP NWC members but they are not reprimanded. He wondered why they want him reprimanded.

He said as a citizen, he had the right to freely express himself, adding that he would never be cowed or intimidated by the threats from the NWC.

 

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  1. Don Lucassi

    May 22, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    lmaooooo….they say one day, the hunter will become the hunted and now its happening. Sorry FFK

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