Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Following the police summon on Sunday to
the Senate President Bukola Saraki over his alleged involvement in the
Offa bank robbery, members of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party
(nPDP) have withdrawn from the reconciliatory talks with the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and the presidency.
The aggrieved group was scheduled to
hold the second round of talks with the presidency and the party’s
leadership on Monday to look into the details of their complaints and to
find ways of addressing them.
Monday’s peace meeting was expected to
have in attendance Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo, the Attorney General of
the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, Deputy
National Chairman (north) of the APC, Senator Lawan Shuaibu, while
members of nPDP were to be led by the Speaker of the House
Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
However, the meeting did not hold as the
leadership of nPDP boycotted it blaming its action on the alleged bad
faith exhibited by the presidency and the leadership of the party.
The Chairman of the nPDP group, Alhaji
Abubakar Kawu Baraje, in a statement issued Monday, said the group
cannot continue negotiations in a “fouled and toxic atmosphere and
environment of intimidation and threat to life”.
Details to follow…
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