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  • BREAKING NEWS: APC ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE FORMER PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PRINCE UCHE SECONDUS IN A CLOSED DOOR AGREEMENT.

    BREAKING NEWS: APC ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE FORMER PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PRINCE UCHE SECONDUS IN A CLOSED DOOR AGREEMENT.

    Unconfirmed reports have it that the embattled former PDP National Chairman now former member of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus is running round states looking for where to file an action to reinstate his party membership.

    Close sources who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity confirm that Uche Secondus has gone to Nasarawa state, an APC controlled state with the help of a high ranking APC member from Rivers state to file an action before Justice Zege, the vacation Judge.

    Besides the Nasarawa Court attempts with the aid of APC National Leaders, Prince Uche Secondus has also made moves to reach Religious and Traditional rulers to help intervene in his travails but he reportedly met negative responses. It was disclosed that the Religious leaders told him that having intervened the first time where the expanded caucus gave him soft landing for an early Convention, he refused to call a NEC meeting to approve Convention and set up a Convention Committee. They therefore declined that they no longer want to interfer in political matters, that they only did because they saw PDP as the only viable alternative to the sufferings, deaths and intimidation meted on Nigerians by the APC led Federal Government.

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  • Party Crisis: PDP NWC Meeting Postponed Indefinitely

    Party Crisis: PDP NWC Meeting Postponed Indefinitely

    August 24, 2021

    The National Working Committee (NWC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), earlier scheduled to take place today, has been postponed indefinitely.

    The deputy national chairman (South) of the party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, announced this in a press release, dated 24 August, 2023.

    The indefinite postponement of the meeting is coming on the heel of a Port Harcourt, Rivers State High Court judgment, on Monday evening, which barred the embattled national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, from acting in that capacity.

    The court pronouncement also directed Secondus to stop parading himself as a member of the main opposition which has been besotted with leadership crisis.

    With the judicial pronouncement, Prince Secondus has been restrained from summoning and presiding over the meetings of any of the organs of the party.

    The PDP Deputy National Chairman (South), Elder Akinwonmi, said, by the virtue of the provisions of the party’s constitution, he was empowered to summon and preside over party meetings in the absence of the national chairman.

    He, however, said in view of the prevailing circumstances, and in the exercise of his powers, as entrusted on him by the PDP Constitution, he deemed it proper to postpone indefinitely the NWC meeting of the party.

    Akinwonmi said the NWC meeting has been postponed till further notice to allow for broader consultations, and in the overall interest of the party.

    “Section 35(3) (b) of the constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party empowers me to summon and preside over party meetings in the absence of the national chairman.

    “Our attention was drawn yesterday evening to court order which purports to restrain our National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, from summoning and presiding over the meetings of the organs of the party.

    “In the foregoing circumstances, as Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, after due consultations and in exercise of the aforesaid powers, [I] hereby deem it fit and proper to postpone the National Working Committee meeting earlier scheduled for today till further notice to allow for broader consultations in the overall interest of our party,” the release stated.

  • Judgment day for Secondus as govs, elders decide fate

    Judgment day for Secondus as govs, elders decide fate

     

    It’s judgment day for embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, as governors and elders of the party meet to iron out grey areas rocking the opposition party, including calls for his sack by some party faithful.

    Daily Sun gathered that the governors would, however, go into the meeting, sharply divided on the calls for his removal. It was learnt that while some of the governors have taken side with party faithful who blame the misfortunes of the party on Secondus post 2019 general election, and want him out before the expiration of his tenure, others are insisting he should be allowed to serve out his term, which ends on December 9, 2021.

    A source privy to the division within the governors said those opposed to Secondus continued stay have demanded the setting up of a caretaker committee that would conduct congresses and also convene national convention to elect a new National Working Committee (NWC) that would prepare the party for the 2023 general election.

    “Those in support of Secondus said he should stay out his tenure while in the next election, the national chairmanship position be retained in the south. Yet, another set of governors, with presidential ambitions in 2023, want the national chairmanship position zoned out of their regions.

    “With a divided house, the governors are expected to meet this evening, brief concerned elders peers of the party. Thereafter, the Board of Trustees would meet to discuss their recommendations.”

    Another source in Abuja said most governors of the party are campaigning for the removal of Secondus to ensure he does not preside over the National Executive Committee(NEC), where a committee would be selected to organise its national convention.

    However, a member of the Concerned Elders forum of the PDP, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, yesterday, said even the forum is also divided on Secondus’ stay as national chairman.

    The party official who disclosed that some governors want  Secondus out so he does not preside over the National Executive Committee(NEC) said: “The don’t want Secondus to preside over the NEC meeting where the electoral panel that would convene the national convention would be selected What he’s banking on is that he would get to chair the NEC, select members of the panel that would return him as national chairman for a second term at the national convention Some of the governors are against this. He may not be allowed to chair the NEC because at NEC, he can wriggle his way through by recognising only those that would be favourable to his ambition. They just want him out before the next NEC meeting.” (sunnewsonline.com)