Governor, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko
Barely two weeks after the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, suspended Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, the party, on Wednesday also wielded its big stick on the Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko.
The National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling party, rising from its 338th meeting Wednesday evening, said it “extensively discussed the state of the Party across the nation and its members as well as the repeated breaches and disregard to the Party’s Constitution by his Excellency, Dr. Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, the Executive Governor of Sokoto State”.
It said that on many occasions, Mr. Wamakko ignored invitations and lawful directives of the NWC and has “continued to show complete apathy to the affairs of the party and contempt to one of its organs.”
A communiqué of the meeting, signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said “consequent upon the refusal of the Governor to honour yet another invitation by the NWC to appear before it today, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 without any reason, the Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 57 (3), 57 (7), 58. 1(c ),(h), (f) and 59 (1),(2), hereby suspends the Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, as a member of the party and refers the matter to the appropriate disciplinary committee of the Party.”
“This is in furtherance of the determination of the leadership of the Party to enforce discipline at all levels within the Party,” the communiqué said.
The party did not list the specific anti-party activities of the Sokoto governor and is yet to constitute a disciplinary committee to review his actions.
Recall that the ruling party had on Tuesday, called for memoranda in the probe of Amaechi, who is also accused of anti-party activities.
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