PDP Convention: Wike Hails Appeal Court Decision

• Says no one can thwart PDP’s rescue mission for Nigerians

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is bigger than any single individual and no one can thwart the Party’s mission of rescuing Nigerians from the bad leadership foisted on them by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Reacting to the Court of Appeal dismissal of the suspended National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus’ application seeking to stop the PDP convention holding on Saturday, October 30, 2021, and restating him as the Party National Chairman, Governor Wike said that attempt at scuttling the PDP’s convention makes him an enemy of PDP.

Governor Wike, who spoke in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, assured that the PDP’s mission of rescuing Nigeria will not be compromised given the mess the ruling APC has made of the Nigerian State.

The Rivers Governor said PDP would clearly not allow any individual or group of individuals to derail its rescue mission as captured by the theme of the convention, adding; “What Secondus is doing is to sabotage the efforts of Nigerians, the efforts of PDP from rescuing this country from the hand of the party that has failed the country. And it is not fair.

“This is a party that has given you everything and there’s nothing wrong in making a sacrifice. Even if, assuming though not conceding, that anything was wrong, we expected that having achieved what you have achieved in your life from this party, there is nothing wrong in making a sacrifice.”

According to him; “If you make a sacrifice for the party, you’re making a sacrifice for Nigerians. If PDP is not there, which other party is ready to rescue Nigeria.”

On the court case instituted by the embattled National Chairman, Governor Wike said the Appeal Court did not only dismiss the application of Secondus, but it also ordered that the PDP National convention be conducted unrestrained.

“Our constitution provides that if a national chairman is removed, the deputy national chairman from that zone will immediately be the chairman or acting chairman as the case may be.

“And so, when Secondus was removed, he handed over to the acting national chairman now. So, the act has already been done, completed.

“So, what will the Court say when someone is already acting and supervising that office,” the governor said.