PDP Leadership: Secondus Vows To Fight On, Refuses To Withdraw Court Case

The final might not have been heard in regards to the management crisis rock­ing the Peoples Demo­cratic Celebration (PDP) because the erst­whereas nationwide chairman of the occasion, Prince Uche Secondus, has vowed to pursue the case which led to his abrupt remov­al to a logical conclusion, Day by day Unbiased has gathered.

Credible sources within the occasion mentioned a number of chieftains of the occasion, together with retired Generals and elder statesmen, have been mounting strain on Secondus to withdraw the case he instituted on the Abuja Division of the Court docket of Enchantment difficult his elimination from workplace.

Secondus had prayed the appellate court docket to affirm that his four-year tenure ends on December 9, 2021.

He additionally requested the appellate court docket to quash the orders of the 2 excessive courts that restrained him because the nationwide chairman of the occasion.

Within the swimsuit, Secondus additionally requested the court docket to nullify his suspension, insisting that sec­tion 59(3) of the PDP constitu­tion clearly acknowledged that the ward or the state government commit­tee of any state has no powers to droop any nationwide officer of the occasion.

A prime supply within the occasion had advised Day by day Unbiased on Wednesday that Secondus had accepted his destiny and moved on, with a promise to assist the par­ty obtain a profitable nationwide conference on October 30 and 31 which is able to ship a brand new na­tional management for the occasion.

“He (Secondus) has since accepted his destiny and moved on as a result of the occasion has moved past the difficulty of any chief­ship disaster. No one is speaking about any management disaster once more. We’ve since left that behind.

“All our efforts are geared in the direction of conducting successful­ful nationwide conference and repositioning our occasion forward of the forthcoming Anambra governorship election in No­vember, the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections and the 2023 polls”.

Nevertheless, when contacted a detailed affiliate of Secondus on Wednesday, who spoke on con­dition of anonymity, mentioned all those that are saying Secondus has resigned to destiny “will quickly obtain the shocker of their lives as the person has promised to pursue the case to a logical conclusion.

“We’re in complete help of this. Our place may be very clear. Even when you don’t need him as nationwide chairman once more, why not enable him full his time period and depart? Why shame him out of workplace few weeks to the top of his tenure as if he dedicated against the law?

“Here’s a man who has sacrificed the bigger a part of his political life for PDP, why then are some few parts led by the Rivers State governor be al­lowed to garbage all his efforts within the final three years? That’s injustice and we’re not going to permit that to occur. We’ve advised him to not withdraw the case and we’re giving him our most help on this”, he mentioned.

Additionally talking on the difficulty, a member of the occasion’s Board of Trustees (BoT) knowledgeable Day by day Unbiased that the stalemate is because of the incapability of the Sen­ator David Mark-led committee saddled with the duty of discovering a long-lasting answer to the plethora of court docket instances, in addition to battle of pursuits between feuding occasion leaders to make the opponents sheathe their sword.

He mentioned Secondus’ refusal to withdraw his court docket case was because of the incapability of the Mark committee to steer Gover­nor Wike to additionally withdraw the unique case in Rivers Excessive Court docket which led to Secondus ouster from workplace.

“The underside line is that the Senator Mark committee couldn’t get Wike to withdraw the unique case from court docket. So Secondus is adamant about withdrawing his problem. That’s the state of affairs for now”, he mentioned.

In a associated improvement, the PDP Nationwide Conference Committee on Zoning headed by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State will meet right this moment to announce zoning of workplaces for the Nationwide Working Com­mittee (NWC) within the forthcom­ing nationwide conference.

Since its inauguration, the 44-member zoning committee, which has Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue as Deputy Chairman and Mahdi Aliyu Mohammed, Zamfara Depu­ty Governor as Secretary, has been inundated with a number of requests by occasion leaders throughout the six geo-political zones on the necessity to zone key positions within the NWC to their area.

A key supply within the occasion mentioned based mostly on the custom within the PDP laid down by the discovered­ing fathers, the zoning com­mittee might rotate the present place within the NWC whereby the subsequent nationwide chairman will emerge from the North.

He mentioned the argument within the occasion in the mean time now could be that it will likely be unjust for an­different Southerner to emerge as nationwide chairman after the South has held the place within the final 4 years.

“It’s doubtless the rotational coverage in PDP is maintained. If that’s carried out, the present po­sitions being held by the North will come to the South whereas these being held by Southern­ers will go to the North. If that’s carried out, then the subsequent nationwide chairman will come from the North because the final occupant, Secondus, is from the South”, he mentioned.