No Crisis In PDP NWC – Secondus

By GWG Staff

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has denied reports of a crack in the National Working Committee of the party following the conduct of state and local government congresses in about 26 states of the federation.

Secondus also denied that he singlehandedly arbitrated on disputes arising from the congresses without the input of other members of the NWC.

A statement from the media office of the National Chairman advised party loyalists to disregard reports of unease within the party hierarchy as a result of the conduct of the said congresses.

The statement said, “Prince Secondus has neither run the party as his fiefdom or personal property nor divide the NWC to satisfy his personal aggrandizement”.

Recent reports in the media had it that some members of the party’s NWC had accused the National Chairman of becoming a de – facto chairman who takes unilateral decisions in flagrant disobedience to party rules and constitution.

Secondus was fingered in crises that engulfed some state chapters of the party prior to the said congresses as he was accused of not handling peace and reconciliation processes in troubled state.

The statement from Secondus’ media office said the congresses (local government congresses in 16 states and state congresses in 23 states) were successfully conducted attesting to the resoluteness of the Secondus – led NWC.

However, the statement said that as a democratic institution that there was no way that there would not be a clash of interests which it said may have led to the finger-pointing.

While submitting that allegations against Secondus stemmed from the unsettled internal crisis in a few of the state chapters, the statement admonished members not to blow them out of proportion to the detriment of the party as party politics ahead of 2023 is becoming intensified.

Recall that the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party at its 88^th meeting in Abuja approved the time table proposed by the NWC for the congresses while sales of forms at the national secretariat began on February 5, 2020.

Congresses began at the local governments in early March while it was expected to start at the state level on March 27.

However, before the congresses could be concluded at the state level the COVID-19 pandemic took root in the country leading to the disruption of the exercise in a number of states.

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