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| Uche Secondus, new PDP Chairman. |
Some
of us knew that the last had not been heard about the People’s Democratic Party’s
recently held convention which was hijacked by the Rivers State Governor,
Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti State counterpart, Ayodele Fayose as a group of
aggrieved members have formed a parallel party and have also opened office for
it in Abuja.
The
group with brand name Fresh PDP (FPDP) has its parallel Secretariat at No. 10, Tito
Street, Asokoro, with flag of the party mounted outside the premises.
Director
General of the FPDP, Prince Emmanuel Obi-Nwosu briefing newsmen on Wednesday in
Abuja said that the group rejected the outcome of the Dec. 9 convention which
produced Prince Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman.
He
said that convention was supposed to be an elective one where a new National
Working Committee (NWC) of the party would emerge. “Most tragically, there was
no election on that day; but a selection of predetermined persons who were
eventually announced as new NWC members’’.
He
said that the group was hurt by the brazen acts of unparalleled impunity and
gross manipulation of the entire process leading up to the convention, alleging
that the Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee, deliberately
refused to release the delegates’ list until barely 24 hours to the convention.
He
also claimed that some persons on the “unity list” collected nomination forms
after the official closing date for the process.
Obi-Nwosu,
who contested the National Youth Leader position and lost, claimed that the
process of selecting the current NWC was concluded days before the convention, calling
on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) all other relevant
authorities to disregard the purported election of the NWC. “As committed and
dedicated candidates and party stakeholders, we have decided to ensure that
internal democracy is sustained in the party and have decided that the dreams
of our founding fathers who laboured and sacrificed so much to build the party
are not destroyed.
“To
this effect, Obi says, we have officially opened a national secretariat of the
party here in Asokoro, Abuja, from where the authentic NWC of the party will be
operating” and would also inaugurate its authentic national working committee
by January 2018.
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