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By Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja
A fresh round of crisis has hit the nation’s leading opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, with seven of it’s national officers resigning from their positions enmasse
This is even as the party’s National YouthLeader, Hon. SKE Ude-Okoye called for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, alleging that he (Secondus) is incompetent of managing the affairs of this party,.
Ude-Okoye accused Secondus of lacking managerial capacity to manage PDP.
The seven PDP chieftains, who are all deputy national officers, in their different resignation letters, addressed to the National Secretary of the party, Senator Unaru Tsauri, on Tuesday, claimed that they being sidelined and unfairly treated by the Prince Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee of the PDP.
The seven deputy national officers are made up of Diran Odeyemi, deputy national publicity secretary; Ahmed Bello, deputy national legal adviser; Umoru Hadizat, deputy national women leader; Divine Amina Arong, deputy national auditor; Hassan Yakubu, deputy national organizing secretary; and Irona Alphonsus, deputy national financial secretary.
The seven national officers, in resigning from their positions, cited what the called the “bad treatment” meted out to them by the PDP national chairman since the election that brought the current leadership of the party to power in 2017.
The seven deputy national officers of the PDP, who resigned in protest against what they called “poor leadership”, have however promised to remain loyal to the PDP.
They nonetheless made it clear that they will not be able to work with the current national working committee (NWC) of the PDP.
The National Youth Leader of the PDP, Hon Ude-Okoye, while addressing journalists after an emergency NWC meeting of the party yesterday, called on Secondus to resign from his position as the chairman of this party, because “he cannot lead this party to victory.”
Ude-Okoye said, “Mr. Uche Secondus, the national chairman of the party is incompetent of managing the affairs of this party, he lacks managerial capacity to manage PDP.
“He has made sure that many departments of the party did not function as effectively as it ought to function.
“Mr. Chairman has nothing to offer to the party. He only came here and deceived us.
“There is a sharp division in our NWC right now, not only me, many more NWC members are more aggrieved than myself.
“Today (yesterday), I have asked him, in our NWC meeting, to resign his position as the Chairman of this party because he cannot lead this party to victory.
“I am also asking the leaders, the governors, the founding fathers, the youth, the women to rise up to rescue our party from the hand of incompetent leader like Secondus, because he is not willing to take us to anywhere. He is just there to make sure that he enriches himself.
“I am here to make it very clear to all Nigerians that if Secondus does not resign from the party, I am going to leave the party for him to eat the party and own the party.
“The governors, if they don’t wade into this matter right now, I assure Nigerians that within the next three, four days, my letter will be public.
“Seven deputies have already resigned their positions today (yesterday), because of Secondus. Many more people are also going to resign in the NWC because of Secondus.
“Right now, I can tell you that not less than eight to ten persons within the NWC members are very aggrieved with Secondus but I have taken my stand because I cannot seat here and one man, who ought to respect his age and respect the oath of the party that he has sworn to protect, to defend, to work for the interest of the party will keep making sure that the party does not go anywhere”, he said.
