The crisis rocking the national leadership of Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has taken a new twist as governors elected on the platform
of the party have asked the Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche
Secondus, to handover the leadership to the National Secretary, Prof
Adewale Oladipo.
The governors also disowned former Special Adviser to former
President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, who stormed the
secretariat with his supporters and made himself national chairman.
Acting under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, PDPGF, the governors
said the national secretary would oversee the affairs of the party for
now in line with its constitution.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the PDPGF meeting, late
Wednesday night in Abuja, the governors frowned at the refusal of the
acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to honour the judgment
of an FCT High Court which last December ordered him to vacate office
for any other person from the North-East zone.
Reading the communiqué, Chairman of the forum and governor of Ondo
State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, said: “We take cognizance of the judgment by
the court in Abuja which ordered the acting chairman to vacate office
for any other person from the North-East zone of Nigeria.
“Our party’s constitution has enough provisions for that and the
necessary process has been put in motion. In recognizance of the
judgment the court gave, we call on the national secretary to take over
the leadership of the party immediately and that is in line with the
provisions of the PDP constitution.
“The decision of the governors came barely some hours after the
former Political Adviser to past President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji
Ahmed Gulak, stormed the secretariat with his supporters and made
himself the national chairman of the party.
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