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Attack On Party Leadership: You’re A Betrayer, Disappointment, PDP Group Tells Melaye

The former candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in last November governorship election in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye, has come under severe attack for his attack on party leadership.

Melaye had wrote on his X platform, “End of the road for PDP as Damagun, Bature, and Anyanwu irredeemably destroyed the party.

“We will talk about the commercialisation and privatisation of PDP. PDP is now once upon a time.”

But PDP Frontliners, a group within the party, challenged Melaye to explain what he did with the ticket given to him by the party as its candidate in the last Kogi governorship election.

The group in a statement issued by Alhaji Hussein Mohammed, Mr Moses Abidemi and Mr Dan Okafor, President, Secretary, and Publicity Secretary respectively, said Melaye got huge support for his campaign, including vehicles from PDP stakeholders, but regretted that he failed to dispense campaign funds to party structures or even polling agents across Kogi state.

“It has never been so bad since 1999, but Dino Melaye’s failure earned PDP a meagre 46,000 votes across the entire state, and the governorship candidate himself did not even bother to vote!” the group noted.

It described the attack as misplaced anger against the party leadership, for denying him the planned hijack of the PDP structure in Kogi State in the just concluded party congresses.

“Ironically, this fellow now talking about how our party is dying was implicated in efforts to scuttle the PDP ward congress in Kogi State, in an abortive effort to commercialise and ‘deliver’ to a paymaster for a desperate outing in 2027,” it added.

PDP Frontliners said Melaye is one of the greatest beneficiaries from the party, recalling that he was given “PDP ticket to the House of Representatives, and even after returning from the APC, PDP gave him a senatorial ticket after prevailing on other qualified aspirants to step down. But you can all see the baseless and groundless insult he is using to pay back.

“The misplaced anger against Damagum and the PDP leadership began when they agreed to the August 9 call of our group and that of 18 out of the 21 PDP Chairmen in various local government areas of Kogi state to stop the state’s Caretaker Committee from replacing the results of a free, fair and orderly ad-hoc delegates’ conference of Saturday 27th July, 2024 with a manipulated process hurriedly slated for Saturday, August 10 but cancelled by the national leadership.

“Obviously, someone is looking for how to scam us and commercialise PDP support base in Kogi State.

“Or, is it not a strange irony that the same minority clique that was behind the failed attempt to commercialise and privatise Kogi state PDP ahead of 2027 primaries now audaciously throws such accusation against those who stopped the manipulation so decisively?”

The group was optimistic that PDP would re-emerge as Nigeria’s dominant party in 2027 if “unethical illegality of using the backdoor to foist any desperate clique’s agenda continues to be resisted by the national leadership.”

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