The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is far from ending as four members of the national working committee (NWC) of the party have threatened to resign their positions.
The NWC is the executive committee of the PDP that’s responsible for the day-to-day running of the party. It comprises 12 members who are elected every fours and it is headed by the national chairman.
According to the TheCable, the four members of the NWC threatened to resign if the leadership crisis jolting the party is not resolved and one of the members is Udeh Okoye, national youth leader of the party.
There is growing discontent with Uche Secondus as national chairman of the PDP and members of the NWC are bent on showing him the exit door.
Kassim Afegbua, a member of the party, had alleged financial malfeasance against the party’s national chairman.
The allegation, even though Secondus denied any wrongdoing and filed charges against the accuser, persists in the PDP circle.
The latest mallet dangling over the PDP comes a few hours after seven deputy national officers of the party resigned their positions, citing ”poor leadership” by Secondus-led executive of the PDP as their reason.
The national officers who resigned also alleged a lack of financial transparency on the part of the leadership as their reason for walking away.
Reacting to the resignations, the PDP through Kola Ologbondinyan, its spokesman, said it activated an “internal conflict resolution mechanism” to reconcile aggrieved members of the party.
“The party will look into their grievances raised by members of NEC as well as members of the national working committee (NWC),” the statement said.
Some members of the party have also called for the resignation of Secondus who is speculated to be staying put at the pleasure of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state.
The PDP has witnessed a leaping exit of some of its stakeholders in recent times. Three governors, David Umahi of Ebonyi; Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara have left the party.
On Wednesday, Joy Emordi, former senator from Anambra and member of the PDP board of trustees (BoT), announced her defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
