Kogi/Bayelsa Election: PDP To Set Up Committee To Probe Members

– The PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin said that adequate punishment will be meted out to those found culpable

– He added that the probe was not on a specific individual but generally

– He also said that the BoT recommended a peace committee to probe into the issues in Edo, Lagos and Kano

The Board of Trustees(BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has recommended the setting-up of a committee to probe the actions of some PDP members who made the party to lose the November 16 Kogi and Bayelsa states election.

The PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said that the BoT, during its meeting, noted the accusations and counter-accusations against its members.

He said that adequate punishment will be meted out to those found culpable.

He added that the probe was not on a specific individual but generally.

He also said that the BoT recommended a peace committee to probe into the issues in Edo, Lagos and Kano.

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Jibrin said, “We recommended a committee that will investigate the outcome of the election in Kogi and Bayelsa.

“We are very concerned with what is happening in Nigerian politics,especially recently in Kogi and Bayelsa.

“We reviewed the situation and condemned in totality the issue of rigging, killings and ballot box snatching that characterised this election; we reviewed the arson that took place, including the death of a Ward chair lady of PDP in Kogi. Such things must stop.

“We also viewed the accusations and counter-accusations among our members on the behaviour of some of our members both in Kogi and also in Bayelsa, especially in Bayelsa.

“We advised that we must make thorough research before we come into conclusion of who did what and suggest remedies.

“Therefore we recommended to the National Working Committee that a very serious investigation must take place.

“We recommended that an interim committee must be set up, similar to the one that was set up after the 2015 election under the chairmanship of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and myself.”