Finally, PDP Grants Waivers to Ribadu, Marwa and Gundiri

Respite came the way of former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu; former military administrator of
Lagos State, Buba Marwa and Markus Gundiri as the National Working
Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday granted them waivers to
contest the September 6 Adamawa State governorship primary election.
Also, the party urged its members in the state to decide their governorship
candidate, stating that as far as it was concerned, “it is only the delegates to
the September 6 governorship primary election that would decide who would be
the governorship candidate of the PDP.”
Addressing newsmen yesterday after the deliberations of the NWC on the report
of the three man waiver screening committee chaired by Senator Ibrahim
Mantu, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh said that the party
had unanimously agreed to grant waivers to Ribadu, Marwa and Gundiri.
According to Metu, the party’s leadership had no problem in reaching the
decision to grant waivers to three governorship aspirants that defected from the
All Progressives Congress.
He stated that the party and the entire NWC would not interfere in the conduct
of the Adamawa State governorship election, saying, “We are not supporting any
candidate. The screening and the primary election would be conducted in the
spirit of fairness and transparency.”
The statement later sent to newsmen and signed by Metuh reads: “The National
Working Committee of the PDP at the end of its meeting on Friday, August 29,
2014, unanimously cleared all aspirants who expressed interest to contest the
October 11 Adamawa State governorship election on the platform of the PDP to
participate in the party’s nomination process.
“After very careful and thorough consideration of all applications and the report
of the Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha-led Adamawa State PDP Governorship Waiver
Committee, the NWC was satisfied that all the
aspirants met the requirements stipulated by the PDP constitution to participate
in the process.”