PDP South-south Group Condemns Tinubu’s Planned Meeting with Minority NASS Members

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South South Youth Vanguard, has condemned moves by President Bola Tinubu to meet with minority National Assembly members during the week.

In a statement, yesterday, by its spokesperson. Mr James Akpofure, the group said, “it has noted with utter dismay, the attempt by the President, to turn the country into a one-party state just a few days after he took office,” and accused Tinubu of trying to “corruptly compromise the NASS members with a view to erasing opposition in the country.”

The group argued that even though the president could invite anyone across party lines to a meeting, it can only be justified after the NASS members had taken oath of office.

“The president is trying to lead the executive and the legislature at the same time, which is outside his powers,” it said, noting that it was particularly wrong for the president to invite opposition legislators especially PDP members to meetings, when the party was already in court challenging his emergence as president.”
The group went further to ask PDP NASS members-elect to boycott such meetings, which they claimed was against the position of their party and against the spirit of democratic governance.

Citing the remarks of the Presidential candidate of the PDP, Abubakar Atiku, at a meeting in Bauchi on Friday, the group said its party (PDP), would reclaim majority in NASS after all election petitions were concluded.