•Says it’s Udeh-Okoye or nothing
•We’re not your slaves, Wabara declares
•Respect our choice, Mbah maintains
The South East zone of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) has urged the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) and different organs of the social gathering management to ratify Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye because the Nationwide Secretary being the selection of the zone, in step with the PDP Structure, and legitimate court docket order.
Leaders of the social gathering decried the mistreatment of the zone by the PDP, insisting that they’d not tolerate the delay within the ratification of Udeh-Okoye because the Nationwide Secretary, saying it was both him or nothing as a result of the zone was not a slave to the PDP.
On the similar time, the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the social gathering, Adolphus Wabara, expressed pains over the triviality with which the PDP had handled the South East zone of social gathering.
The South East PDP took the stand, yesterday, in a communique issued on the finish of a gathering of the Zonal Govt Committee and social gathering leaders held in Enugu underneath the management of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu and PDP Nationwide Vice Chairman (South East), Chief Ali Odefa.
The assembly was additionally attended by the Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, amongst a bunch of others.
In his opening comment, Mbah stated, “We have now carried the banner of PDP within the South East with nice delight. So, when we’ve come collectively, as a individuals on a matter that impacts us as PDP members within the South East and a choice is taken in step with our social gathering’s Structure and the electoral pointers, I feel it will be a mistake if that place is disrespected.
“I consider that we’re right here to resolve whether or not we, the South East, will proceed to be slaves on this social gathering. I really feel pained that the Igbo are being mistreated. We’re being handled like slaves. Due to this fact, we are going to go away right here with a far-reaching choice and that call have to be carried. That’s the reason we’re right here,” he stated in his introductory comment.
Nevertheless, studying the communique, Odefa stated: “The assembly reiterated and reconfirmed its selections in its earlier assembly held on twentieth October, 2023, which requested Senator Samuel Anyanwu to cease parading himself because the Nationwide Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Celebration (PDP), as he has relinquished the workplace by advantage of the Structure of the PDP, which has been upheld by a court docket of competent jurisdiction.
“The assembly affirmed the nomination of S.Okay.E. Udeh-Okoye as his alternative for the Nationwide Secretary of the Celebration, to serve out the rest of his time period, in accordance with the Celebration’s Structure.
“The Structure of PDP could be very clear on the matter of resignation of an elected nationwide social gathering official, who vied or is vying for an election, as offered beneath.
“Part 47 (5) states that any elected PDP nationwide officer who needs to contest an elective workplace should resign. It offers the ability to find out the size of Discover of the resignation to the Nationwide Govt Committee (NEC) of the Celebration, to be contained within the Pointers.
“Moreover, a court docket of competent jurisdiction, the Enugu State Excessive Courtroom, on twenty eighth December 2023, in a thought of opinion, held that Senator Anyanwu, by standing for the Governorship primaries of the PDP, ‘had elected on his personal volition to vacate the workplace of Nationwide Secretary.’
“The Courtroom additional ordered that S.Okay.E. Udeh- Okoye be recognised because the Nationwide Secretary of the Celebration.”
The social gathering, due to this fact, urged the PDP NWC and different organs to recognise Hon. Udeh-Okoye because the genuine Nationwide Secretary of the social gathering.
