Bayelsa: Why We Cannot Sanction Jonathan – PDP

Neither former President Goodluck Jonathan nor Prince Uche Secondus is under pressure on account of the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Bayelsa State, party spokesman Kola Ologbondinyan said on Wednesday.

The assertion was upon assertions that President Jonathan worked against the party’s candidate on account of differences with Governor Seriake Dickson and that Secondus as national chairman sabotaged the emergence of a popular candidate.

Asserting that there was no report against any of the two party chieftains and that the party’s leadership was not divided on account of the issue, Ologbondinyan speaking after a meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC said:

“the issue of President Goodluck Jonathan did not come up at this meeting and it was not discussed. You  must know about the procedure and processes in our party. If we do not have a report or an issue before us, we cannot delve into it. As we speak now, we do not have any matter concerning President Jonathan before the party,” he said.

“The national chairman is not under any pressure except the fact that we believe that democracy is gradually being killed by this government and we believe that as the main opposition party, we have a responsibility to salvage democracy. 

“Talking about division within the NWC, all of us are here. Virtually everybody was here and we discussed freely,” Ologbondiyan added.

On the deliberations of the NWC on Wednesday, he said:

“We deliberated on the elections  in Kogi and Bayelsa states at the highest level of the party led by the national chairman.

“We have taken a decision to go to court long before now but beyond that,  we are going to take other measures  which the national chairman will address tomorrow (today).

“We have not done a post mortem of the elections. We have only weighed the circumstances that surrounded the election. 

“We have also looked at the global condemnation of the elections as held on Saturday. We have reviewed the role of INEC and the role played by security agencies. Formally the party will come up with a position. But whether we have done anything internally within the party, we have not gotten there.”

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