PDP Crisis; Another National Chairman emerges as Court sacks Uche Seconds as Party Chair

crimechadmin August 25, 2021

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The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 proclaimed himself the Acting National Chairman of the PDP.

CRIMECHANNELS gathered that he proclaimed himself the Acting Chairman in a statement he released on Tuesday.

In the statement, it was learnt that he also announced the indefinite postponement of the National Working Committee (NWC) meeting planned for Tuesday.

According to him, he assumed the office in the absence of the substantive National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who was ordered by the court to stop parading himself as the Chairman.

Part of his statement reads, “Section 35(3) (b) of the constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party empowers me to summon and preside over party meetings in the absence of the national Chairman.”

“Our attention was drawn yesterday evening to a court order which purports to restrain our National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, from summoning and presiding over the meetings of the organs of the party.”

“In the foregoing circumstances, as Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, after due consultations and in the exercise of the aforesaid powers, [I] hereby deem it fit and proper to postpone the National Working Committee meeting earlier scheduled for today till further notice to allow for broader consultations in the overall interest of our party.”