The
crisis rocking the national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
has taken a new twist as governors elected on the platform of the party have
asked the Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to handover the
leadership to the National Secretary, Prof Adewale Oladipo.
The
governors also disowned former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck
Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, who stormed the secretariat with his supporters
and made himself national chairman.
Acting
under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, PDPGF, the governors said the national
secretary would oversee the affairs of the party for now in line with its
constitution.
In a
communiqué issued at the end of the PDPGF meeting, late Wednesday night in
Abuja, the governors frowned at the refusal of the acting National Chairman,
Prince Uche Secondus, to honour the judgment of an FCT High Court which last
December ordered him to vacate office for any other person from the North-East
zone.
Reading
the communiqué, Chairman of the forum and governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun
Mimiko, said: “We take cognizance of the judgment by the court in Abuja which
ordered the acting chairman to vacate office for any other person from the
North-East zone of Nigeria.
“Our
party’s constitution has enough provisions for that and the necessary process
has been put in motion. In recognizance of the judgment the court gave, we call
on the national secretary to take over the leadership of the party immediately
and that is in line with the provisions of the PDP constitution.
“The
decision of the governors came barely some hours after the former Political Adviser
to past President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, stormed the
secretariat with his supporters and made himself the national chairman of the
party.
The
governors also lampooned Gulak for daring to unilaterally declare himself the
new chairman of the party without recourse to the appropriate organs of the
party.
Mimiko
said: “The invasion of the party headquarters by Ahmed Ali Gulak,
who reportedly assumed the chairmanship of Peoples Democratic Party is
regrettable and condemnable.”
In a
communique issued at the end of its meeting, yesterday, in Abuja, the governors
in very strong terms, described the action as unfortunate, regrettable, adding
that the governors will meet soon to get a new national chairman.
It said:
“The invasion of the party headquarters today by Ahmed Ali Gulak who reportedly
assumed the chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is regrettable
and condemnable.
“We take
cognizance of the judgment by the court in Abuja which ordered the acting chairman
to vacate office for any other person from the North-East zone of Nigeria. Our
party constitution has enough provisions for that and the necessary process has
been put in motion.”
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