Another major crisis has again erupted in the main opposition Political Party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the inauguration of the new Ward Executive Committees of the Party nationwide in which accusing fingers are being pointed at its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus and National Working Committee, NWC, of mismanaging the exercise because of their “personal interest”.
Findings revealed that the tenures of the occupants, going by the Constitution of the Party, expired by 11 59 pm of Thursday last week and while the new Excos were expected to be inaugurated on Friday May 1, in those states where the Congresses had already been concluded before the lockdown orders occasioned by the Coronvirus pandemic in the country..
It was gathered that the fresh crisis had sharply divided the NWC with some members accusing the National Chairman of the Party, Prince Secondus of not implementing the collective decisions of the body to the letter on vital issues for the progress of the Party.
According to one of the aggrieved members of the NWC, “all is not well in the Party right now, our National Chairman is the only one that can explain the case of the current issues being raised concerning the inauguration of the Ward Excos because we sat as a body and resolved that the exercise should be put on hold in some places such as Ekiti, Kano, Cross Rivers and others where we had some issues to be resolved, but to the surprise of every one, the Press statement on the decision was never made public
“Findings revealed that the non-release of the statement at the appropriate time gave room for manipulations. For instance, in Ekitii State where we have some issues to resolve, two parallel Excos were inaugurated, one on Thursday and the second one on Thursday, we even learnt they went to court over the matter under this lockdown.
“Our take is that if the National Chairman had allowed the Press statement as resolved by the NWC, there would not be room for the shortcomings we are witnessing now, am afraid if something is not done urgently to rescue the Party, we should as well forget 2023
“Another issue of contention we been battling with is the blank suspension slammed on some of our law makers in the House of Representatives, it was supposed to last for a month but look at where we are now, we never tabled its extension at any of our meetings, the Chairman only extended it by fiat through a Press statement.
“Anyway, some of us kicked against it because of the realities on ground, PDP is not the only Party that makes up of the Minority in the House, others met and they elected their leaders which were ratified by the House, we think those who are representing us are doing very excellent based on their brilliant performances, they are our first Eleven, we don’t know why the Chairman is looking at other way
“The time has come when the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives to wade into the matter before the affected law makers will be frustrated to dump the Party
Efforts to speak with the National Publicity Secretary NPS of the Party, Me Kola Ologbondiyan over matter proved abortive as at the Press time.
