September 02, (THEWILL) – The embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has faulted his purported suspension by Ward 5 of the Andoni local government in Rivers state.
He stated that only the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) can suspend him as a national officer, adding that Article 59(3) of the PDP constitution disempowers the ward, local, and state government from suspending a NEC official, let alone the national chairman of the party.
This is contained in a statement issued by his media aide, Ike Abonyi. The media aide said his principal “ordinarily should not be responding to every ‘noise’ in the media being engineered by those who set out to distract and destroy the Peoples Democratic Party, but it is our responsibility to guide those who are easily persuaded by news in the media hence this response.
“Such action is a mere wish as Article 59(3) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, constitution states clearly that only the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party can discipline the National Chairman or any other National officer of the party.
“Members of the public and the media should therefore be wary of agents out to distract PDP from the focus of retrieving our beloved country from the irreparable damage already done to it by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.”
THEWILL reported that PDP members in Ward 5 in the Andoni local government area of Rivers state had on Wednesday suspended the embattled national chairman of the party.
The ward chairman, George Christopher, who disclosed the development at the extraordinary meeting of the PDP Ward members at the party’s secretariat in Ikuru town, said 11 out of the 17 executive members endorsed Secondus’ suspension from the party.
