SDP threatens to expel Adeniran, Gabam over alleged anti-party activities

The national leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have threatened to expel a former minister of education, Professor Tunde Adeniran and others over alleged anti-party activities.

The threat was contained in a communique issued at the end of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, held on Wednesday, at Transcorp Hilton hotel, Abuja under the acting national chairman of SDP, Chief Supo Shonibare.

In the communique signed by the national publicity secretary of the party, Alfa Mohammed, and emailed to the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday in Ibadan, the leaders said they had directed the SDP national secretariat to immediately flush out those elements believed to be destabilising the party.

According to them, after reviewing the state of the party nationwide, they noted that efforts at re-invigorating and uniting all tendencies in the party after the last elections in the country was being undermined by “unelected individuals” claiming to be the national officers of the party.

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They claimed that neither Professor Adeniran nor Alhaji Shehu Gadam were elected as SDP national officers and had no power whatsoever to issue directives to any organ and state chapters of the party.

“The secretariat of the party was therefore authorised to take all necessary proactive actions, to ensure that these political elements are weeded out of the party as a matter of urgency.

The SDP leaders stated that the national secretariat of the party had been inundated with complaints from many state chapters of letters emanating from Alhaji Shehu Gabam, purporting to be the national secretary of the party and allegedly suspending elected state executive chairmen and members.

“The members of the SDP must note that neither Professor Tunde Adeniran nor Alhaji Shehu Gabam was ever elected into any National Executive Committee (NEC) position of the party. Members are enjoined to ignore letters under either their hands or any other person or persons not elected at the last elective national convention of our party in 2016,” they stated.

The SDP leaders commiserated with a top-notch of the party, Professor Jerry Gana over the death of his younger brother and the leader of the Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoratnti on the brutal murder of his daughter, noting that the state of insecurity had become endemic.

They urged the Federal Government to immediately initiate the process of rejigging the nation’s security architecture so that the states could exercise the primary responsibility to secure the lives and property of their citizens.