PDP crisis: Baraje, Tukur camps clash in Senate

Date: 2013-09-26

Barely a week after a similar clash at the House of Representatives, supporters of the main Peoples Democratic Party and those of the Kawu Baraje-led faction of the party clashed again at the Senate on Wednesday.

A timely intervention by Senate President, David Mark however saved a crisis situation on the floor of the senate when members were making their contributions on a motion on the demise of late former Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu.

Trouble started when a former governor of Gombe State, Danjuma Goje, representing Gombe Central Senatorial district, while extolling Agagu's virtues, described himself as a member of the New PDP with Alhaji Kawu Baraje as the National Chairman.

The Senator representing Kogi West,  Smart Adeyemi, immediately raised a point of order which was granted by the Senate President.

Adeyemi argued that Goje had ran foul of the order 53 of the Senate Standing Rule, by "using offensive language against the party on whose platform he was elected as a senator" and asked Mark to caution him.

The debate was nearly hijacked by members of the main opposition  party in the senate, the All Progressive Party, who shouted at Adeyemi while he was making his submissions.

Goje insisted that he was a founding member of the party while Smart joined some years after.

Supporters of the New PDP and some APC members in the Senate shouted at Adeyemi.

However, Adeyemi said, "Anyone who is not happy with his or her membership of the PDP should better defect to another party.

"They cannot remain in the PDP and be creating crisis"

Mark immediately intervened and remarked that the PDP remained a strong, united party, to which Goje belonged even if he claimed that he had a different chairman.

He said, "The PDP remained a strong united party and Goje has not said he is not a member. He only said someone else is the chairman of the party   which he recognises. We are distinguished senators, do not let us turn our chamber into a market place over a small issue."

Meanwhile, senators paid glowing tributes to Agagu on the floor of the hallowed  chamber on Wednesday following a motion by the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Boluwaji Kunlere.

Kunlere, who contested the senatorial seat with Agagu in 2011,  drew his colleagues' attention to the sudden death of the former governor last week after he returned from a vacation abroad.

He noted that the late Agagu who had served his state and the nation as a deputy governor, governor and minister at various periods, deserved a special honour by the senate.

He, therefore, moved that the Senate should observe a minute silence for him and also, send a delegation to commiserate with his family and the people of Ondo State.

Senators Hosea Agboola, Danjuma  Goje, Ajayi Boroffice, and Adegbenga Kaka, who made contributions on the issue, commended the virtues of the late Agagu and described him as "a simple, very accommodating, and highly articulate politician."

They observed that Agagu performed very well in all the assignments he undertook, either at the state or federal level, and that his achievements were worth celebrating.

Before requesting the senators to vote on the motion, Mark observed that the favourable comments made about Agagu   showed that Nigerians, irrespective of their party affiliation or ethnic consideration, agreed that the late governor was an achiever.


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