The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has uncovered membership registration scandal in some state chapters of the party.
The illegal registration, allegedly being sponsored by yet-to-be-identified party chieftains, is aimed at cornering statutory delegates from the wards and local governments ahead of the party’s state election primaries.
It was gathered that the sponsors of the illegal registration have issued unauthorised membership cards to their cronies in the various states, with the view to getting their votes for their preferred candidates in the governorship and other state election primaries fixed for October.
Some of the states involved in the registration scandal, according to sources, include Anambra, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Nasarawa, Kano, Sokoto and a few others.
Disturbed by the scandal, the National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, had during the week, summoned the 36 chairmen of the state chapters and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) for an emergency meeting at the national secretariat.
Inside sources told our correspondent that the cards were being smuggled out of the national secretariat by some party insiders in under-the-counter deals with desperate politicians who needed them.
Shocked by the development, Mu’azu was said to have ordered the withdrawal of party registers in wards and local governments across the federation, with the view to frustrating the plans of the sponsors of the illegal registration.
The chairman was also said to have directed investigation into the scandal, with the view to unveiling the identities of the sponsors and their collaborators at the party’s national secretariat and vowed that anyone found culpable would be handed over to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for prosecution.
A highly placed party source close to the meeting informed our correspondent at the weekend that some prominent party chieftains in the various states were being linked to the scandal. “But the chairman made it clear that he would not take action against anyone until their involvement in the scandal is proven beyond doubts,” the source said.
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