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Ex-senator, Dep Gov Candidate, 69 Others Vow To Quit Ebonyi PDP

POSTED ON June 12, 2024 •   POLITICS      BY Benedicta Bassey
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No fewer than 69 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State including the immediate past Senator, who represented Ebonyi South, Chief Micheal Amah-Nnachi, have vowed to dump the party over alleged manipulation of the state's Caretaker Committee list.

Also to join the fray of defection are the 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the party, Senator Paulinus Igwe-Nwagu; and a former Commissioner for Information, Chief Abia Onyike.

The National Working Committee of the PDP yesterday convened a stakeholders' meeting of the party and dissolved the immediate past caretaker committee.

The NWC had asked the party faithful to nominate each person from the 13 local government areas of the state to constitute a substantive caretaker committee.

But the ratified list allegedly featured names of persons, who had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The Ebonyi PDP stakeholders in a communique, which had over 71 signatories, on Saturday, vowed to resign their membership of the party if the alleged sabotage was not addressed by its national leadership.

The communique read in part, “We the undersigned members and stakeholders of the PDP, Ebonyi State chapter, wish to alert the Board of Trustees, the National Executive Committee, the National Working Committee, and the general public as follows:

“That it is on record that critical stakeholders of the PDP in Ebonyi State, led by the 2023 deputy governorship candidate of our great party, Senator Nwagu, who represented the governorship candidate, High Chief Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, who was unavoidably absent due to flight disruptions occasioned by the nationwide strike of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday June 4th, 2024 at the NWC Hall at the Wadata Plaza, the national headquarters of the party met with the NWC of our great party with the acting  National Chairman, the National Secretary, the National Organizing Secretary among other members of the NWC present.

“The above-stated meeting was on the invitation of the NWC.

“That the NWC at the end of the highly successful meeting resolved as follows

“That the former caretaker committee in place in Ebonyi State stand officially dissolved.”

It added, “The NWC mandated the PDP stakeholders and members present to nominate a candidate each from the 13 local government areas of the state to serve in a new caretaker committee to be immediately inaugurated.

“The Ebonyi State PDP members subsequently made nominations, while the NWC announced that it reserves the right to appoint the Chairman and Secretary from any part of the South-East.

“It is, therefore, embarrassing and worrisome that the NWC made a volte-face and reneged on its own decision by throwing away the list submitted by the critical stakeholders of the PDP and produced an entirely new list that features even Hon. Udeh Akaji, Hon. Francis Ibiam and Hon Dave Odeh, who had since publicly resigned from the PDP and joined the All Progressives Congress, another party. 

"The list also includes the name of Hon. Okoro Pascal Monday, who took the party to court in suit no: FHC/CS/AI/95/2024, between Hon Pascal Okoro and Ambassador Umar Illilya Damagun (acting National Chairman of the PDP and six others, which is still pending at the Federal High Court, Abakaliki Division.

“It is also noteworthy that the four named individuals were not at the meeting convened by the NWC on June 4, 2024.

“From the above conduct of the PDP NWC, it is now crystal clear that they are either working as undertakers for the final burial of the PDP in Ebonyi State, or they are being misguided by arch-enemies of the PDP in Ebonyi State.

“We hereby state categorically that if the NWC reneges on the collectively agreed-upon list of the new caretaker committee as submitted by the various local government chapters of the PDP in Ebonyi State, we may not have any other option but to resign from the PDP.”

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