PDP disaster: Group calls for resignation of 5 NWC members

A gaggle inside the principle opposition Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) below the umbrella of “Coalition for Good Governance” has demanded the instant resignation, or elimination of 5 members of the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) of the celebration over alleged anti-party actions.

The  affected NWC members are Deputy Nationwide Chairman (South), Amb. Taofeek Arapaja, the Nationwide Vice Chairman (South South), Chief Dan Orbih, the Nationwide Vice Chairman (South West), Olasoji Adagunodo Nationwide Vice Chairman (South East) Chief Ali Odefa and the Nationwide Lady Chief, Prof. Stella Affah-Attoe respectfully, who returned some monies mentioned to be bribes.

was contained in a press release signed by the group’s Nationwide Coordinator; Mallam Muhammad Suleiman; Common Secretary, Owolabi Adebola; and Nationwide Publicity Secretary; Ephraim Obinna, made obtainable to newsmen on the weekend in Abuja.

Whereas condemning the alleged bribery and inducement of the members of the NWC  levelled in opposition to the Nationwide Chairman of the Get together, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, the group referred to as for thorough investigation of the affected celebration members, accusing the nationwide officers “of working for a determined egocentric curiosity, to orchestrate damaging narratives aimed toward bringing  our nice Get together, the PDP to public disrepute and truncate its fortune within the 2023 common election”.

The assertion learn partly, “Within the bid to foist a unfavourable storyline on the Get together, these apparently compromised Nationwide Officers, yielded to the enemies of the Get together by falsely presenting their Housing Allowances, their reliable entitlement duly permitted and paid to nationwide officers and employees of the Get together to the general public as bribe.

“Now we have been reliably knowledgeable that that is a part of the well-funded furtive scheme focused not on the Nationwide Chairman, Sen. Dr. Iyorchia Ayu however to destabilize the PDP, derail its Presidential Marketing campaign and frustrate the deserving victory of our Presidential Candidate, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar within the 2023 common elections.

“Now we have additionally obtained data of how enormous sums of cash exchanged arms to prosecute to deliver the PDP to public opprobrium a day after the inauguration of the Get together’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council.

“The motion of those Nationwide Officers quantities to critical betrayal of belief, gross misconduct, abuse of workplace and unpardonable anti-Get together exercise in violation of Part 58 (1) of the Structure of the PDP, 2017 (as amended).

“That is particularly as these Nationwide Officers are a part of the Nationwide Working Committee which permitted the funds consistent with the already established Phrases and Circumstances of Service of employees and Principal officers of the Get together.

“On this regard, we name for the instant investigation into the monetary actions of those officers following allegations that they had been closely bribed to execute such a despicable scheme in opposition to the Get together and our Presidential Candidate.”

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