PDP crisis deepens as C’River chairman rejects purported dissolution

By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful Cross River State, Venatius Ikem Esq, has rejected the reported dissolution of the authorities enforcement announced by the party’s National Publicity Secretary.

He described the determination arsenic an amerciable effort to subvert antiauthoritarian processes and enforce an unpopular enactment connected the authorities chapter.

In a connection issued connected Friday and made disposable to journalists, Ikem said the announcement was a ploy by detractors to drawback powerfulness and destabilise the party.

He recalled that connected Thursday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, announced the dissolution of the authorities executive, claiming its tenure had expired.

The nationalist enactment besides directed a South-South Zonal Caretaker Committee led by Chief Emmanuel Ogidi to instrumentality implicit and behaviour the authorities legislature connected September 27.

Ikem dismissed the determination arsenic a brazen maltreatment of power, insisting that it violated the party’s constitution and reflected desperation by immoderate nationalist leaders seeking to manipulate interior elections.

He said: “The Cross River State Executive of the PDP was inaugurated connected September 29, 2021. Our tenure truthful ends connected September 29, 2025. This is precisely wherefore the National Working Committee fixed September 27 for the authorities congress.

“The Constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party has ne'er approved chats connected societal media platforms arsenic meetings of the enactment oregon arsenic genuine channels for convening NWC meetings connected important issues.

“The purported dissolution is amerciable and a deliberate effort to instal an unpopular State Executive Committee with persons who cannot different triumph astatine the morganatic legislature scheduled for September 27.

“This enactment is an maltreatment of bureau and an affront to the Constitution of the party. The serial misuse of the powers of the NWC, purporting to enactment connected behalf of the National Executive Committee, is simply a implicit maltreatment of their authority.”

Ikem urged enactment members and supporters successful the authorities to stay law-abiding, assuring them that the authorities enforcement would defy immoderate effort to derail the advancement the enactment has recorded successful caller years.

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