PDP: Opposition Mounts Against Second Term For Secondus

By GWG Staff

Strong opposition to Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP came on Tuesday with a strong denunciation of his capacity to carry the party beyond its present levels.

While observing the strong enmity of the ruling party, the Ijaw PDP Youth Frontiers, in a statement observed that Secondus has not shown capacity to rally the party faithful towards overcoming the challenges through what it described as his personal limitations.

The group particularly flayed the resort to consultants by Secondus which the group said had brought down the morale of the PDP workforce who the group prided as bearing the institutional memory of the party.

The statement signed on behalf of the group by Adawari Ake and addressed to PDP leaders said that it was unfortunate that instead of growing the party that Secondus was more preoccupied with building bases for his second term next year.

“Prince Uche Secondus’s major agenda at the moment is to secure his second term in office as national chairman of the party in 2021. His desire to perpetuate himself in office is the reason for the problems the party is experiencing in some states of the federation. The national chairman is using his influence in the party to take control of structures in the states through his cronies.

“Prince Secondus has destroyed the institutional base of the party, by contracting the organizational functions of the PDP to shadowy Consultants that are alien and unknown to the Constitution and customs of the party. Some of these actions by the national chairman are meant to evade accountability to party organs and external auditors.

“A case of worry is his frequent clash with the staff of the party at the National Headquarters whose functions are outsourced to Prince Secondus’s consultants.

“Some of the staff of the party predate his election as national chairman, and remained the institutional memory of the PDP since the national officers are elected representatives whose tenure elapses every four years. It is of note that the party’s workforce showed exceptional loyalty to the party in the face of the unsuccessful capture of the party by renegades between 2016-2017.

“Is it not ironic that the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, has no agenda to grow the party’s membership? Mr. Secondus is not concerned about expanding the party or making it attractive to Nigerians. For the PDP to win back power, the party needs to bring in a minimum of five million new voters into its fold. It is unfortunate that the party is still in its old ways of hoarding membership and resisting technology in registering new members.   

“The party’s membership registration process must be driven by technology in order to open the space for the younger generation and stop the monopoly of party registration by interests loyal to Prince Secondus and his cronies.”

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