PDP Expels Former Jigawa Governorship Candidate, As Crises Lingers Within The Party

Umar Akilu Majeri

The Peoples Democratic Party has expelled its former Jigawa governorship candidate, Malam Aminu Ibrahim, for anti-party activities.

Alhaji Ibrahim Babandi, the state PDP Chairman, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Dutse on Wednesday.

The National Working Committee of the party yesterday announced the immediate expulsion of Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim from the party.

The PDP in the state stated in a press conference that it has finally expelled its state gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 and 2019 elections, Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim from the party over alleged anti-party activities, this was confirmed by the committee under the leadership of Alhaji Muhammad Daguro.

 

Addressing newsmen on Monday the chairman of the party Alhaji Ibrahim Babandi Gumel after the committee’s meeting at the state secretariat of the party in Dutse, the state chairman of the party declared that the decision was arrived after recommendations were made by the disciplinary committee set up by the party to investigate all the allegations levied against Malam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim.

 

He stated that earlier the Ringim ward where Aminu Ringim hails from had already suspended him from the party which was also communicated to the state chapter. which the state party instituted a disciplinary panel to investigate and made recommendations to the party.

 

He said due process of the party’s constitution was followed before Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim was dismissed from the party by the state working committee.

 

However, the two-time gubernatorial candidate of the PDP Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim said the expulsion was done in nullity insisting that the decision cannot hold any water as the party lacks the merit to take such a decision.

 

Mallam Aminu Ringim said the constituted executive of the party were illegally constituted hence lacks the merit to invite him, nor take a decisive position against any member of the party.

 

He said, “everyone is living witness that no elections were held at the said respective offices which was the reason for not honouring their invitation”, he declared.

 

” I will not give credence to a group that formed a coalition and called themselves as PDP executives, I have made my stance clear, I will not recognise the illegally constituted executive until the right thing is done by our party”, he declared.