PBNU Special Committee, Gus Ipul: Many PKB Elites Melenceng From NU

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) Executive Board Gus Saifullah Yusuf alias Gus Ipul said that currently his party is discussing establishing a special committee (pansus) to return the National Awakening Party (PKB) to NU. "The special committee will be referred to as Team Five who work to straighten the history of PKB," said Gus Ipul, Friday, July 26.

Gus Ipul argues that the legitimate owner of the political party led by the General Chairperson of PKB Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar is NU. "In fact, he suspects that there is a real and systematic effort by the PKB elite to keep PKB away from the NU structure soon," he said. "This step after seeing the historical statement of the PKB elite. There are signs that they will take a run away from the history of the establishment of the PKB," he said. It was also confirmed that PKB was founded by the PBNU structure to the branch and branch of the NU management. Without the NU structure, PKB would never have been formed. In addition, he considered that there were several elite PKB statements that the PBNU did not need to be heard. In fact, without listening to PBNU, according to Gus Ipul, PKB was proven to have failed in the presidential election some time ago. Meanwhile, the Five Team to be formed would resemble the Five Team that PBNU had previously formed at the beginning of reform when it was founded by PKB.

The Five team, he said, would soon be realized if it received approval from Rais Aam KH Miftachul Ahyar and PBNU General Chair KH Yahya Cholil Staquf. "We will invite all figures, NU activists to be asked for their opinion regarding this matter," said Gus Ipul.