Former Governor of Bayelsa State and the lawmaker representing Bayelsa West Senatorial District, Seriake Dickson, has defended the Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, Uche Secondus, alleging that some leaders of the opposition celebration are attacking him, thereby inflicting confusion within the celebration.
Whereas warning that the state of affairs might spell doom for the PDP, Dickson known as for an emergency assembly by the Nationwide Government Council of the celebration, following the mass resignations by members of its Nationwide Working Committee on Tuesday.
Dickson made the decision in an announcement issued on Wednesday and titled ‘PDP Can’t Afford the Grave Hazard of a Caretaker Committee – Dickson…Try By a Few Folks to Hijack Social gathering Will Result in Implosion.’
Seven members of PDP’s NEC had resigned from their places of work on Tuesday.
They have been Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Diran Odeyemi; Deputy Nationwide Authorized Adviser, Ahmed Liman; Deputy Girls Chief, Umoru Hadizat; Deputy Auditor, Divine Arong; Deputy Nationwide Organising Secretary, Hassan Yakubu; Deputy Monetary Secretary, Irona Alphonsus and one different whose id was not identified.
Of their separate resignation letters, the celebration officers cited “unhealthy therapy” by Secondus as the explanation for his or her motion.
Nevertheless, Dickson, who was Chairman of the PDP Reconciliation Committee from 2013 to 2020 and Chairman PDP Governors’ Discussion board, additionally known as on governors on the platform of the celebration to shut ranks.
He stated, “Now we have noticed for a while the rising pressure, recriminations and outright assault on the Nationwide Chairman and members of the Nationwide Working Committee by some leaders of the celebration.
“One has kept away from making statements as a result of we consider that the celebration has inner mechanisms and ranges of management that may deal with it and I used to be in reality conscious that BOT members, governors and different elders, reconciliation committee, collectively and individually, have been making efforts to resolve a few of these disputes and challenges affecting the steadiness of the celebration.
“As we’re all conscious, some officers of our celebration resigned yesterday and we must always thank them for his or her providers, but when their resignation is geared toward inflicting a disaster within the celebration, then we must always all condemn it and people behind it.”
In response to the lawmaker, the structure of the PDP empowers the NWC to make replacements. He, due to this fact, known as on Secondus and different members of the NWC to instantly make applicable consultations from the states and zones from which those that resigned and make their replacements topic to ratification by the NEC.
Dickson added, “An emergency NEC assembly ought to be convened which ought to take applicable selections to stabilise the celebration. And if there may be any member of the working committee who desires to resign, such an individual ought to take into account the general curiosity of the celebration and have a rethink.
“If, nonetheless, any NWC member goes forward to resign, the resignation ought to be accepted and consultations be made by the Chairman and NWC to fill these positions as momentary vacancies topic to ratification.
“The Nationwide Chairman and NWC members ought to utilise their powers beneath the structure to self-discipline erring members concerned within the nefarious plot to destroy the celebration. PDP is larger than any particular person and will not tolerate folks with inordinate ambitions to destroy the celebration which belongs to all Nigerians. Folks with ambition should know that until the celebration is stabilised and strengthened, their ambition can be of no consequence even when they pocket it.”
