Secondus Finally Survives Impeachment
POLITICS DIGEST – The call for the impeachment of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, may have hit the rock. This follows a report that the party’s stakeholders on Tuesday, August 10, stopped a move to prevent Secondus and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) from re-contesting at the party’s national convention.
It was gathered that Secondus got a soft landing a week after his position was threatened by a no-confidence vote and mass resignation of some NWC members of the party.
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He survived increasing calls for his resignation as party leaders fixed the end of October for the national elective convention to elect its next national chairman, thereby getting a 10 weeks respite.
It was noted that although the tenure of the incumbent NWC was due to elapse on December 6, stakeholders of the party made up of 13 governors, the Board of Trustees (BoT), and other organs of the party, brought the convention forward as a move to placate anti-Secondus forces who have been pushing for his removal.
The Sokoto state governor and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Tambuwal, who addressed the press in Abuja, said a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting would hold next week and that a convention planning committee would be constituted.
Sources at the meetings said the shifting of the national convention to October, was part of steps taken to pacify the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his supporters who were insisting on Secondus’ resignation.
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