By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
The former Borno State Chairman of The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Usman Badairi has appealed to all PDP members and his supporters to remain calm over the Court of Appeal’s verdict that reaffirmed his rival, Hon Mustapha Gaddama as authentic PDP Chairman in the state.
The judgement was delivered on Tuesday by Justice Mohammed Danjuma and presided by the Chief Judge, A.A Gumel at Abuja Court of Appeal in favor of the other faction of the party in the State.
Reacting to the court verdict in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday in Maiduguri, Hon. Badairi urged his supporters to remained calm and continue to be loyal to the PDP.
“I am calling my people to remain clam and thank you for all your support to me, and to the party through out our struggles to build our one and only PDP in one hand, and to reclaim our mandate of the leadership of the Party in Borno State on other hand”.
“However, the Court of Appeal’s verdict in Abuja which reaffirmed the earlier judgement in favor of the other faction of the Party in Borno State on Tuesday January 4th 2022 would never deter us to further our quest to wrestle our mandate in Borno State”.
“I am equally calling on all the 27 local government party chairmen of my camp to continue to exercise patience as i am on the top of the matter and assuring that i would do all what it takes to ensure that PDP would be in our hands to avoid sinking of the party in Borno State.
“I Alhaji Usman Mahdi Badairi together with other genuine PDP members in Borno State have been in the party since its formation in 1998 and have never shift our loyalty or defect to the opposition even for once, and therefore will not leave the affairs of the party in the hands of those who are not genuine members of the party and who have only come to the party to serve their personal interest and not the interest of the party and its members”.
“We have earlier in the last two years reclaimed our mandates painstakingly in the legal corridor up to the Supreme Court, and we are currently following the same path to achieve our desired objectives.” Badairi said.
Meanwhile, the state’s Chairman of the PDP, Hon Mustapha Zanna Gaddama through the PDP State Publicity Secretary Mr. Amos Adziba said , “it is an in-house affairs, so therefore, it is a no victor and no vanquish situation.”
“The said Badairi has went to lower court and now to upper court, and all his complain/claims were thrown out, he should please come and join the moving train”. Gadama said.
Hon. Gaddama, however, extended his hand of friendship to his rival, Hon Usman Baderi and all aggrieved members of the PDP in the state while calling on them to eschew bitterness and forget about the past to join hand with the incumbent party leadership to enable the party wax stronger in the state.
He assured equal and fair representation of PDP members in the state as he intended to carry all members along for the collective interest of the party.
It would be recalled that a high-powered reconciliatory committee of the PDP has been constituted to reconcile all aggrieved members of the party nation wide especially, those aggrieved that left the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
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