Prince Uche Secondus, the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that he has not stepped down from his position in the party.
Secondus, in a statement by his Special Adviser, on Media, Ike Abonyj, on Saturday night, said he stayed away from the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, in compliance with the order of Federal High Court, in Calabar.
The statement reads:
‘The media office of Prince Uche Secondus wishes to correct erroneous news circulating that he has stepped down as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Prince Secondus by his unavoidable absence at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Saturday was merely obeying an interim order from Cross River State High Court.
“As a law-abiding citizen who has been an adherent of rule of law as a basis for democracy stayed away in respect for the courts.”
A state High Court sitting in Calabar on Friday, gave an order of interim injunction restraining Secondus from presiding over the national executive committee meeting of the PDP scheduled to hold on Saturday, the 28th of August, 2012 or any subsequent meeting of the national executive committee of the party and from presiding over any meeting of any organ of the PDP or attending any of such meetings or functions in the capacity of national chairman of the party or in any other manner or form attempting to forcefully gain entrance into any such meetings or into the premises of the PDP as national chairman of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
