The aggrieved members of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, under the banner of ‘Fresh PDP’ have announced
their new plan to inaugurate what it called the authentic National Working
Committee, NWC, of the PDP on January 22, 2018, to replace the Prince Uche
Secondus led committee.
The ‘Fresh PDP’ has its national
secretariat at Asokoro, in Abuja, where the parallel NWC would be operating
against the Prince Uche Secondus-led NWC which is operating at the Wadata
Plaza, Wuse zone 5, also in Abuja.
While speaking with reporters in
Abuja, leader of the splinter group, Emmanuel Obi-Nwosu, said they would “fight
to the finish” until the result of the PDP December 9, 2017 national convention
which produced Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman was cancelled and a
fresh convention organized.
The Fresh PDP also said hence
forth, it would not allow the PDP Governors’ Forum to function, arguing that
the Forum was alien to the party’s constitution.
Obi-Nwosu said, “Finally, the
inauguration of the authentic National Working Committee (NWC) of our great
party will take place on Monday, the 22nd of January, 2018. This is to enable
all members of the NWC who travelled out for holidays to return.
“Only organs of the party as duly
recognized by the party’s constitution shall henceforth function as stipulated
in the constitution. To this end, the hitherto oppressive and retrogressive
anti-democratic PDP Governors’ Forum which is completely alien to the party’s
constitution is hereby proscribed.
“The recommendations of the well
constituted strategy and Inter-Party Committee; which was jettisoned by the
defunct National Caretaker Committee (NCC) of the party; will be revisited with
a view to ensuring its full implementation.
“No more shall our party
entertain any form of list, whether unity or divisive. The party’s constitution
shall be followed to the latter in the conduct of all future party elections.
What happened at the Eagle Square does not require reconciliation but
restitution.
“What we are doing is to ensure
that what was done wrong is done right. What we need in PDP now is thorough
internal party democracy,” he said.
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