Nigeria’s Coalition of Opposition Federal Lawmakers has urged Nigerians and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful to disregard the purported suspension of the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Adolphus Wabara.
The Coalition, in a statement by its Spokesperson, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, said that the so-called suspension was engineered by the former National Secretary of the party, Samuel Anyanwu, former governor of Abia State Okezie Ikpeazu and others, who are loyal to the minister of FCT, Nysesom Wike.
Ugochinyere dismissed the purported suspension, describing it as null and void and of no effect whatsoever not being consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017) and laid down rules of the party.
He added that Adolphus Wabara remained the chairman of the PDP BoT and there’s nothing the pro-Wike group can do about it.
The statement read, “This is an attempt to ridicule the efforts of Adolphus Wabara to help find sustainable solutions to these party problems. How can you say you’re suspending the national board of trustee chairman of the party? A member of the National Executive Committee.
“The suspension is the figment of imagination of these pro-Wike group, APC in PDP is dead on arrival, you cannot suspend the National board of trustees chairman, that the constitution expressly forbids you. You can see that there’s nothing sacred to them, they are out to destroy this party. Now they’ve moved their political madness, attempting to destabilize the board of trustees. But I know the BoT members are eminent and they can see through this political madness. It’s a suspension that was conducted in FCT ministry as far I am concerned. The National board of trustees chairman of our party remains Sen. Adolphus Wabara and there’s nothing these Pro-Wike group can do.”