{"id":296752,"date":"2011-03-09T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/why-we-did-not-sign-inec%e2%80%99s-code-of-conduct-by-pdp\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:03:00","slug":"why-we-did-not-sign-inecs-code-of-conduct-by-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/why-we-did-not-sign-inecs-code-of-conduct-by-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we did not sign INEC\u2019s code of conduct, by PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74\">\n<p><span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it was not afraid of signing the Code of Conduct for political parties. It is also not planning to sabotage the general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>National Secretary of the party Alhaji Abubakar Baraje said what has been misconstrued as its refusal to sign the code was the insistence of the PDP and 42 other political parties that the right procedure be followed in arriving at an acceptable code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Prof Attaihiru Jega assured political parties during a retreat in Calabar that they would be allowed to make input before the final draft of the code is signed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;However, to our greatest surprise, the INEC Chairman announced that the forum was for a signing ceremony for a \u2018code of conduct\u2019 which we were seeing for the first time. The earlier understanding that a draft copy shall be sent to parties for input was completely jettisoned,&#8221; Baraje stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said the PDP and other 42 political parties met and drafted their input after their observation was acknowledged by the INEC boss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Baraje said: &#8220;The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party has been drawn to misleading information that the National Secretary of the PDP refused to sign the code of conduct for Political Parties as presented by INEC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The story has been mischievously twisted to make it look like the PDP is averse to the set rules meant to regulate the forthcoming electoral exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;In order to clear all doubts emanating from these false reports, we wish to present herein the complete picture of the entire episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;At the retreat organized by INEC and the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) for all registered Political Parties in Nigeria held in Calabar, Cross River State recently, it was agreed that all Political Parties shall contribute ideas towards the establishment of an acceptable code of conduct for all Parties in the forthcoming elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The PDP has always participated actively and given its maximum corporation to INEC in all its programmes. It is this very high esteem with which we hold INEC that the National Secretary broke away from the ongoing Nationwide Presidential Campaign to attend the stakeholders\u2019 forum summoned by INEC on the 8th of March 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/88606cf0thumbnail.php_8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/web3\/news\/30355.html\" title=\"Why we did not sign INEC\u2019s code of conduct, by PDP\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why we did not sign INEC\u2019s code of conduct, by PDP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it was not afraid of signing the Code of Conduct for political parties. It is also not planning to sabotage the general elections. National Secretary of the party Alhaji Abubakar Baraje said what has been misconstrued as its refusal to sign the code was the insistence of the PDP and 42 other political parties that the right procedure be followed in arriving at an acceptable code. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why we did not sign INEC\u2019s code of conduct, by PDP - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/why-we-did-not-sign-inecs-code-of-conduct-by-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why we did not sign INEC\u2019s code of conduct, by PDP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it was not afraid of signing the Code of Conduct for political parties. 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