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  • PDP NWC members won’t resign – Secondus

    PDP NWC members won’t resign – Secondus

    The Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, on Thursday ruled out the possibility of the remaining members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) resigning from their positions.

    The PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BOT), Chief Tony Anenih, resigned their positions on Wednesday.

    Many members of the party had called for Mu’azu and NWC members’ resignation following PDP’s failure in the 2015 elections.

    Speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Secondus said there is no reason for any of the remaining NWC members to resign as they all have their tenures still running.

    He also explained that Mu’azu was not forced to resign from his position.

    He said: “You know that is not right, it is unconstitutional, because the chairman resigned voluntarily, and the BoT Chairman also did that voluntarily. Some of the others have tenures, at the end of our tenure if we are re-elected, fine, if not that is the right thing to do.”

    “There is no reason for us to resign because we have worked hard.”

    On Mu’azu and Anenih’s resignation, he said: “Sometimes it happens that way. Nobody forced them to go.”

    Explaining the purpose of his visit to the Villa, he said: “I just came here to interact with our leader, Mr. President.”

     

  • Muazu: Jonathan, Secondus, Dickson meet in Aso Rock

    Muazu: Jonathan, Secondus, Dickson meet in Aso Rock

    Few hours after the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Adamu Muazu resigned from office, Uche Secondus, who steps in as Acting Chairman, met with President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    Secondus arrived the Presidential Villa around 5.15 p.m with Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson.

    He acknowledged greetings from those who were congratulating him as the new PDP chairman.

    The meeting with the president is believed to be connected with the new development in the party.

    Secondus and Dickson walked out together from the President’s office around 6.17 p.m.

  • Atiku will come back to us – PDP

    Atiku will come back to us – PDP

    The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to come to terms with Sunday’s defection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the ruling party to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Apparently disturbed by the development, the ruling party on Tuesday described the defection as a political voyage, saying Atiku’s return to the PDP is only a matter of time.

    In a statement announcing his defection, Atiku accused the ruling party of abandoning the Nigerian people that gave them electoral victories over the years. He described the PDP as irredeemable.

    But PDP’s Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, said the defection of Atiku and others would have no effect on the party, adding that the PDP remained the only “consistent party” in the country.

    Secondus said: “Defection or not, it will not affect our party. When they leave, they go on voyage and they come back and we receive them. I can tell you that they will go and come back

    “We are waiting for Atiku to go on this voyage and to come back. He has done it before. This is not the first time and we will welcome him back when he comes, because APC cannot win election. They are not firmly rooted.

    “We will win this election, we have the statistics, we have the population, and we will win the 2015 election.”

    The party chief said while the PDP has been on ground since 1999, opposition parties have yet to find their feet, insisting that the ruling party remained the largest party in the land.

    “The opposition had just started the registration of their members. We have done registration of our party 13 years ago and every year we update, we are the largest party in Nigeria,” he maintained.

    Secondus described efforts of the opposition as media gymnastics and urged PDP members not to allow the opposition to change their perception.

     

  • PDP’s NWC members shun meeting with Tukur

    PDP’s NWC members shun meeting with Tukur

    Members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday shunned an emergency meeting called by the party’s chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

    Only the National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo; the National Auditor, Adewole Adeyanju and the National Treasurer, Alhaji Bala Buhari joined the chairman at the meeting room.

    With Tukur and only three of the 12-member NWC team in attendance, the meeting could not form a quorum.

    Although other members of the NWC were at the party secretariat, they chose to remain in their various offices.

    Apparently rattled by the action of the NWC members, Tukur stormed out of the meeting venue and headed straight to his official car in which he was driven out of the party secretariat at about 2pm.

    The development may have signaled the withdrawal of support for Tukur by President Goodluck Jonathan who is the national leader of the PDP.

    Insider sources told our correspondent on Monday that the absence of the Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus at the meeting was an ominous sign that the President may have ditched Tukur.

    Secondus is seen as the eyes and ears of President Jonathan within the ranks of the leadership of the PDP.

    The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who met reporters a few hours after Tukur left the party secretariat, avoided comments on the matter.

    Asked to comment on the matter, Metuh feigned ignorance of the development, saying “I only came to felicitate with you (reporters) on the New Year.

    “You all know that we just resumed from our end-of-year recess and I just decided to breeze in here to say Happy New Year to you all.”