The Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Secondus, Prince Uche Secondus on Wednesday, met with the aggrieved deputy national officers who resigned their positions earlier in the week and appealed for calm.
OBSERVERS TIMES Recall that seven deputy national officers had on Tuesday resigned their appointments. The officers are: Diran Odeyemi, deputy national publicity secretary; Ahmed Bello, deputy national legal adviser; Umoru Hadizat, deputy national women leader; Divine Amina Arong, deputy national auditor; Hassan Yakubu, deputy national organizing secretary; and Irona Alphonsus, deputy national financial secretary.
The officers, who cited “bad treatment” exhibited by the party National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, since the election that brought the current leadership of the party to power in 2017, also alleged that there is a lack of financial transparency in the leadership.
Secondus appealed to the national officers to sheath their swords, adding that life of the National Working Committee, NWC, led by him will end in the next four months.
A source at the meeting, which was held at the party national secretariat, told our correspondent that some of the aggrieved members, promised to continue in office.
According to the source, Secondus told the aggrieved national officers that “we started together and there is the need to end together in peace.”
In their meeting on Tuesday night, the NWC members, who met with party stakeholders and some Board of Trustees members, resolved to go back to their constituents to find ways of resolving the impasse.