As the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) national delegates moved to Abuja on Saturday for its two-day national convention, Rivers state Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike accused the party’s chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, of attempting to destroy the event in order to thwart efforts to end the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government’s poor leadership.
Many of the executive positions will be filled by voice vote, as individuals were accepted to fill them by consensus processes in the regions to which they were designated.
Secondus was labeled a saboteur by the Governor when addressing in Port Harcourt on Friday in response to the Court of Appeal’s rejection of the former chairman’s bid to halt the PDP’s convention.
According to him, the convention is still going strong despite achieving 95% pre-conference consensus on positions.
He said: “Anybody who crosses our way to stop this rescue of Nigeria, the person is an enemy of to this country.”
Wike stated that the PDP’s objective to save Nigeria will not be compromised because the ruling APC had left the country in shambles.
Wike was instrumental in the embattled former Chairman’s election as Chairman of the PDP National Working Committee in December 2017.
Prior to his formal position, Secondus served as the committee’s acting Chairman from 2015 to 2016.
He said: ”What Secondus is doing is to sabotage the efforts of Nigerians, the efforts of PDP from rescuing this country from the hand of the party that has failed the country. And it is not fair.
“This is a party that has given you everything and there’s nothing wrong in making sacrifices. Even if, assuming though not conceding, that anything was wrong, we expected that having achieved what you have achieved in your life from this party, there is nothing wrong in making sacrifices.
“If you make sacrifices for the party, you’re making sacrifices for Nigerians. If PDP is not there, which other party is ready to rescue Nigeria.”
Wike, a lawyer, argued that the party acted within its existing constitutional standards, notwithstanding Secondus’ insistence that his expulsion was unlawful.
He said: “Our constitution provides that if a National Chairman is removed, the Deputy National Chairman from that zone will immediately be the Chairman or Acting Chairman as the case may be.
“When Secondus was removed, he handed over to the Acting National Chairman now. So the act has already been done, completed. So, what will the court say when someone is already acting and supervising that office.”
The Governor expressed optimism that the PDP National Convention on Saturday and Sunday would be the best-organized ever, with the PDP emerging stronger and more united as a result.
He said: “Nigeria is in trouble and we cannot do it alone. We require everybody to work with us, collectively and see how this country can be rescued.
“Nigerians are not happy with the ruling party, the way Nigerians are being treated. Like I’ve told everybody that there is nothing better than making sacrifices for the interest of the country. PDP is the only platform, and which it is today as the only opposition party that will rescue Nigeria.”
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