Members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are plotting the removal of National Chairman Uche Secondus owing to lack of confidence in his ability to lead the party to victory in 2023, The Nation has learnt.
The plot gathered steam on Tuesday during a meeting of the PDP NWC. Sources at the meeting said many of the NWC members, during the tension-soaked meeting pushed for removal of Secondus, who has been having a running battle to remain in office.
A very reliable supply on the assembly disclosed that the NWC participants have been unhappy with Secondus’ coping with of issues in the party, which they said has no longer made the birthday celebration play its role as a possible opportunity or competition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
It was accrued NWC members among different issues accused Secondus of not presenting effective management to permit the birthday party take gain of what they recollect because the negative management fashion of the APC to convince Nigerians to dispose of the ruling party in 2023.
“Many of the NWC members are sad with him (Secondus). He has not lived as much as expectancies. And we’re afraid that our exceptional party could not make the predicted effect in 2023 if we retain Secondus as national chairman”, the source who did now not want to be named told The Nation.
He said that troubles of economic impropriety and mismanagement had been additionally raised against the chairman, whom he claimed had a tough time defending himself.
“There had been additionally allegations of monetary mismanagement delivered in opposition to him. And we wanted reasons, which we're but to receive. There changed into so much anxiety, and it changed into clear many stakeholders within the birthday party wanted Secondus out.
“He has been unable to manipulate the simmering disaster in the birthday celebration, a few chapters inside the north are slightly hanging on by using a thread. Even inside the south west, some outstanding individuals are at conflict with each different, and the simplest cause the birthday celebration has now not imploded there may be because of their strong religion inside the celebration.
"Secondus has also failed to manage the state of affairs. We assume he simply has to depart so we can reposition the birthday party for 2023,” the highly placed supply discovered.
He further discovered that a number of the birthday celebration’s national executives also presented to resign from their positions so as no longer to be dragged down with the embattled countrywide chairman.
Secondus may have incurred the wrath of the NWC members when he unilaterally lifted a suspension positioned on some lawmakers at the House of Representatives beneath the party’s platform who had been sanctioned for the function they performed inside the emergence of Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the lower chamber in addition to other minority officers.
The opposition PDP had nominated Kingsley Chinda for the location of minority chief and Chukwuka Onyema as Deputy Minority Leader. Yakubu Barde turned into nominated as Minority Whip and Muraina Ajibola as Deputy Minority Whip by using the PDP.
But in what was considered as a betrayal, some members of the PDP subsidized Speaker Gbajabiamila to reject the PDP nominees and alternatively advocated the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu and Toby Okechukwu as Minority and Deputy Minority leaders respectively. Gideon Gwani become picked as Minority Whip and Adesegun Adekoya as Deputy Minority Whip.
The movement made the PDP slam suspension on Elumelu, Wole Oke, Lynda Ikpeazu, Anayo Edwin, Gideon Gwadi, Toby Okechukwu and Adekoya Abdul-Majid, a move that turned into reversed by means of Secondus with out the approval of the NWC.
Secondus’ situation is stated to be greater precarious as he isn't always inside the correct books of the Rivers Governor, Nyesome Wike who's seemed as a kingmaker inside the celebration.
The NWC Tuesday assembly, which was reportedly prolonged due to the heated debates across the removal of Secondus, got here to an inconclusive give up with the officials seeking to calm tempers, as stakeholders kept insisting that Secondus need to pass, a scenario that turned into stated to have split the NWC.
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