Ebonyi: PDP Vows To Snub ‘APC Mole’ As Chairman

The Peoples Democratic Party (NAN) has vowed to appeal appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, which invalidated the appointment of the Fred Udeogu-led Caretaker Committee for Ebonyi State. Without mentioning his name and the party, the PDP vowed to reject an APC mole as its state chairman.

Mr. Onyekachi Nwebonyi who won the court case was chairman of the party until the dissolution of the executive following Governor Dave Umahi’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Without mentioning the the relationship, the PDP vowed that it would not allow non party members to take charge of the party in Ebonyi.

The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Friday.

Ologbondiyan said the PDP received with amazement, the decision of the court, which invalidates a legitimate party decision carried out in line with the constitution of the PDP.

“As a law abiding political party, we are finalising the paperwork for our appeal, which will be filed to correct this judicial anomaly.

“However, in the meantime, Mr Onyekachi Nwebonyi, purporting to be holding a leadership position in PDP, as not a member of the PDP,” the PDP said in dismissing Nwebonyi given the background that he could be an APC mole as chairman.

“Hence, Nwebonyi could not hold or claim to be holding any position whatsoever in our party.

“If the dissolution was said to be wrong, the withdrawal/cancellation of his membership due to anti-party activities did not form part of that judgment,” he said.

Ologbondiyan urged PDP members in Ebonyi and the public to totally disregard Nwebonyi and other sponsored claiming to be members of the PDP.

“The PDP firmly stands on decision of the National Executive Committee (NEC) in the appointment of the Fred Udeogu-led Caretaker Committee for Ebonyi State.

“The Caretaker Committee is a legitimate action made in pursuant to the constitution of our party, and nothing has changed.

“We are conscious of several decisions of both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, that a court cannot dictate how a political party performs its internal activities as long as it is done in accordance with the party’s constitution.”

Ologbondiyan urged the PDP members in Ebonyi State to remain united and continue to work with the Fred Udeogu-led Caretaker Committee while resisting activities of external forces seeking to destabilise the party in the state.

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