Concerning the suspended members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, the chairman, Hon. Hassan Felix Hyat has given an insight into some of the reasons why they were suspended.
The party had suspended seven members, including Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi.
In an interview with journalists in his residence, the caretaker committee chairman, Hassan Hyat, revealed that Senator Hunkuyi has a long history of dumping the party each time he contested the governorship elections and lost.
He also revealed that the Senator flouted the party’s rule in the 2019 elections, stressing that rather than contesting the senatorial seat as a decampee, Hunkuyi contested for the office of governor as well as the senatorial seat against the MoU between him and the party’s national body officials.
“Senator Hunkuyi contested the governorship elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011 against Mohammed Makarfi, Namadi Sambo and Patrick Ibrahaim Yakowa and lost all. And, when he contested and lost, he will disappear until the next round of the election before he will come back for contest claiming to be the best candidate, at all times”, he said.
The chairman also stated that all those creating problems in the party are not real members but decampees that belong to the former Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi’s camp.
The state chairman also disclosed that the state party believed that the trouble makers in the party are creating problems simply to ensure that the party does not do well in the local government elections next year, even though he could not agree on whether they are moles in the party as spoilers.
“90 percent of them are not original members of PDP; they are all decampees, especially his own (Hunkuyi) group. Those who didn’t decamp with him, are not causing us any problem at all, only those attached to him.
“You know that the three years’ tenure of the local government chairmen will end next year; so, I don’t think their issue now is about 2023 but an issue of local government elections because that is the bedrock of politics.
“So, they think, if they mess us up, we have nothing to do, and while the party has nothing to present at the local government elections it means that we will be completely disadvantaged.
“Therefore, we believe that they are only in PDP to create problems”, he said.
Hyat further explained that supporters of the party that never wavered have been sending text messages and calling him to give their advice on ways forward to end the crisis rocking the party at the state level after the state congress but none from Hunkuyi’s camp.
He added that the decision to suspend the erring members would serve as disciplinary measures and as a deterrent to other would-be members of the party.
It could be recalled that the party in the state had suspended Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi and six others for alleged “Anti-party activities”,.
