ABUJA—Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has dismissed reports that the erstwhile chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu‘azu and former chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih were forced to resign their positions on Wednesday.
Speaking with State House correspondents yesterday, Secondus also affirmed that the remaining 11 members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party will not resign but rather dedicate themselves to rebuilding of the party.
According to him, it was simply coincidental that the two men resigned their positions on the same day.
Secondus who succeeded Mu‘azu on Wednesday spoke after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking against the background of calls by some other stakeholders including Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and presidential campaign spokesman, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, that the remaining members of the NWC should follow Mu‘azu out, Secondus said there was no basis for that given that the NWC officers’ stay in office was tenured.
Debunking insinuations that Mu‘azu was forced out as chairman of the party, he said: “You know that is not right, it is unconstitutional, because the chairman did that voluntarily, and the BoT Chairman also did that voluntarily.
Some of the others have tenures, at the end of our tenure if we are re-elected, fine, if not that is the right thing to do. There is no reason for us to resign because we have worked hard.”
On the coincidence of the resignation of both the former national chairman and the former BoT Chairman, he said: “Sometimes it happens that way. Nobody forced them to go.”
Explaining the purpose of his visit to the villa, he said: “I just came here to interact with our leader, Mr. President.”
Asked on expectations from the party, he said: “Sitting back to reorganize and then re-invent our party, and to assure our teeming supporters and members that the party is intact without any problem.”(Vanguard)
