Convention: Jitters In PDP Over Secondus’ Appeal Case  

Ahead of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scheduled for this weekend in Abuja, the party is in quagmire and running from pillar to pole over the hosting and possible outcome of its convention.

This followed the appeal case filed by the suspended National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who has made himself incommunicado by going underground.

Checks by Forefront News indicate that Prince Secondus, who is feeling aggrieved and was unprotected key organs of the party, is believed to have gone underground in order to stave off mounting pressure from some key leaders of the party on the need for him to withdraw his appeal against his suspension at the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division of the court.

Secondus’ appeal followed the ruling of a Rivers State High Court on September 10, directing him to stop parading himself as the national chairman of PDP.

Information pieced together indicate that Secondus has stuck to his guns to seek redress in court in order to prove a point.

Secondus is also seeking the suspension of the convention scheduled to hold in Abuja on October 30 and 31, 2021.

It was gathered that attempts by governors on the platform of the party, some members of the Board of Trustees, Presidential aspirants and notable elders to reach out to him have not yielded results.

This is as his appeal case is causing serious panic within the party over the Appeal Court ruling in his favour which may render all arrangement for the national convention a nullity.

The party leaders are weighing the option of going ahead with the convention with the hope that a truce might be worked out as some of the governors are desirous to reach him to further assuage his feelings and to give him assurances of his future political position within the party.

The party leaders are also weighing other legal and political options in case of a possible restraining court order stopping the convention.

Forefront News also gathered that the party leaders are mulling the idea of a shift in date to December should a court grant a restraining order stopping this weekend’s convention.

It was also gathered that Secondus had told some of his close party leaders that he is determined to fight his battle up to the Supreme Court as it became obvious that some of the concerned party leaders were unsuccessful in persuading him to accept his removal.

Forefront gathered that Secondus is particularly irked that other governors of the party folded their arma dna watched as Governor Nyesome Wike single handedly took over the command of the affairs of the party leading to his removal which he considered not proper and unconstitutional thus, wants to see justice served to enable the party learn a big lesson from it.

It was gathered that it was some of these encumbrances that made the Reconciliation Committee of the Party led by former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark appealed to the party to allow the Secondus-led National Working Committee to complete its term in office which was expected to come to an end on December 9, 2021.

Members of the reconciliation committee included Senator Mark; Governor Darius Ishaku; a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi; a former Minister of Communications, Haliru Bello Mohammed; a former National Chairman of PDP, ex-Governor Okwesilieze Nwodo; a former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Alh. Shuaibu Oyedokun; a former Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Inna Ciroma; and the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe.

The eight-man reconciliation committee of the party, equally appealed to the party leaders not to tamper with Secondus-led National Working Committee.

The panel therefore directed Governor Wike and Prince Secondus to withdraw all court cases to allow for smooth convention which Wike refused to comply with even as Secondus gave a nod to withdraw the cases if the other party does same.