Ahead of the 98th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holding on Thursday, a former National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, has advised the party’s leaders to take measures to restore the opposition party’s glory.
He advised the party not to be distracted by the actions of former governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Fedeal Capital Territory Adminustration, Neysom Wike.
In a statement by Ike Abonyi, his media adviser, Secondus charged the founding fathers of PDP and other dedicated members “to rise to the challenge and return this great party to its glory by ensuring as they always do at critical moments that nobody or group is greater or bigger than this party.”
He accused Wike of “trying hard to create a non-existent crisis in the party to make himself relevant before his boss President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is already getting fed up with his nuisance of bringing politics into the governance of the FCT.”
Secondus said: “By deviously trying to create the impression that he is in a tussle of supremacy with the 2023 presidential candidate of the party and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Wike who is copiously losing political relevance everywhere from Rivers to Abuja is trying to give the impression that he is a factor in PDP and holding it for his APC interest.
‘The critical structures of this party, NEC, BOT, National Caucus, forum of Governors, Chairmen of states and National Assembly caucus of the party must rise to the challenge and isolate mischief makers and meddlers like Wike and move the party forward.”
The former National Chairman then charged the party leaders “not to fall into Wike’s trick by giving him undeserved relevance which he no longer possesses.”
