Prince Uche Secondus, the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated his decision to contest his removal from office in court on Sunday.
Secondus was barred from acting as the national chairman and a member of the major opposition party by the Rivers State High Court on August 23.
The Kebbi State High Court restored him to his place two days later.
The PDP chairman’s position was supported by a Rivers court on September 10 and he was told to stay away from the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
Several PDP members had urged Secondus’ resignation as national chairman before his legal troubles, citing his alleged poor handling of the party’s business.
To appease anti-Secondus forces within the party, PDP stakeholders, including governors, decided to move the party’s national convention from December to October 31.
The PDP chairman, however, claimed in an Abuja statement signed by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, that he was in court to preserve the party from those who wanted to destroy it.
The statement read: “For the avoidance of doubt the media office wishes to restate that Prince Secondus is really under pressure for justice and would seek it anywhere to save the party from hirelings who were out to destroy and derail the focus of the party.
“The attention of the media office of Prince Uche Secondus has been drawn to an unsubstantiated story claiming that he is under pressure to withdraw his case against the party from the court.
“The truth which the said news did not state is that Prince Secondus is not in court against the party but was dragged to court instead by persons bent on hijacking the soul of the party.
“The party leaders are aware of who went to court against it and knows what to do rather than indulging in mind games.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the justice Prince Secondus is seeking is as enshrined in the party constitution which is supreme and states clearly how a national chairman and any national officer can be sanctioned even where there is a known breach not to talk where this none.”
