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2023: S/West PDP Bigwigs on the Move to Remove Party's National Chairman Secondus

2023: S/West PDP Bigwigs on the Move to Remove Party's National Chairman Secondus






Top leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest have begun consultations and campaigns to convince other stakeholders in the party to remove Prince Uche Secondus as the party’s national chairman, our reporter has gathered. Secondus is under fresh pressure to leave office over alleged crises in the state chapters, gale of defections, House of Representatives crisis, constitutional breaches and failure of the National Working Committee (NWC) under his watch to get victory for the party in the 2019 presidential election.

Secondus’ tenure of four years would elapse in 2021, when another national convention would be conducted for a new leadership to emerge but Daily Trust gathered that some PDP stalwarts are plotting his removal before then. A credible source from the Southwest revealed to Daily Trust that some founding fathers of the party, former national officers, former governors, serving and former members of the National Assembly who are part of the plot are putting a committee in place to actualise their dream.

He said the aggrieved stalwarts were persuading a former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to return to the PDP and take a shot at the national chairmanship as “compensation” for the Southwest.

"We have a tradition in the PDP in effecting changes of leadership since inception and this one will not be different,” he said. A former Special Adviser on Public Affairs to former president Goodluck Jonathan and member of the defunct presidential campaign council for Atiku Abubakar, Malam Nasir Zahradeen, told Daily Trust recently that “Secondus must go.” But the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, dispelled the claims that Secondus was under pressure to vacate office. “The national chairman is not under any pressure to leave office, except the fact that we believe that democracy is gradually being killed by this government and we believe that as the main opposition party we have a responsibility to salvage democracy,” he said.

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