Group Calls For Election Of New National Chairman Of PDP

More pressure is mounting within the Peoples Democratic Party as the acting national chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, has been asked to relinquish the position and revert to his previous position as the deputy chairman.

This new move is being championed by a group called PDP Restart Project, which called on Secondus to constitute a meeting of the party’s national executive committee, The Punch report.

According to one of the members of the group, Suleiman Bello, on Sunday, September 6, in Abuja faulted the statement allegedly made by the NWC that there is no vacancy in the office of the national chairman of the PDP.

He added that the group is already taking steps to ensure that someone from the North-East shoud replace the former chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, following his resignation as chairman of the party.

Bello said: “A lot of consultations are ongoing to rebuild the party and also to see what happened during the 2015 general election.

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“Members of the party across the country must disregard the NWC on substantive chairman. The PDP NWC must call a NEC meeting, they are behaving like sole administrators. They need to know that the party is greater than any individual.

“The North-East must produce the chairman and such a chairman must complete the tenure of the former chairman. That is the only way to restore peace into the party.”

He advised that until this is done, before the PDP as a party can sit down and discuss as one family what led to the defeat of the party in general elections.

Meanwhile, a former adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan on political matter was reportedly said to have gone to the national secretariat to declare his intention to vie for the party chairmanship position.

He said that the three months that the party’s constitution allowed for acting position had expired, insisting that there is a need for election into the office.

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