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Afegbua Tells PDP National Chairman Uche Secondus To Resign

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4 years ago

May 21, 2021.

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Prince Kassim Afegbua has asked the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus to resign.

Ex-spokesman and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kassim Afegbua has asked the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus to resign.

This followed the defection of the Governor Cross River, Benedict Ayade from PDP to All Progressives Congress (APC).

EkoHotBlog reported that Ayade exited the opposition party to the ruling party on Thursday after some APC Governors visited him.

Afegbua in a press statement on Friday stated that Secondus’ leadership has outlived its usefulness.

The statement read, “I have reiterated the fact that the present leadership of the peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, under Prince Uche Secondus has outlived its usefulness and therefore deserves to be shown the exit door or voluntarily resign.”

The Ex-spokesman of the opposition stated, “I had predicted in the course of my interrogation of the leadership that Governors Ayade, Mutawalle, and Ikpeazu would soon exit the party, as well as Fani-Kayode and Senator Grace Bent.

According to him, this is “simply because the Secondus leadership is bereft of ideas and lacks the capacity to lead a virile opposition.”

Afegbua lamented the loss of the party, “under his phlegmatic leadership, the PDP has lost two serving Governors while others are in the queue to exit the party.

“Uche Secondus is killing the party day by day because he does not have what it takes to pilot the affairs of the opposition.

“Right before our very eyes, we have lost two former Speakers, Dogara and Bankole, former Governor Gbenga Daniel has left, David Umahi and Ben Ayade have both left, making the party vulnerable to the average Nigerian mind.

“The stakeholders of the party should move beyond mere meetings to push away Secondus as a way to re-ignite, reboot, and rejig the party for more constructive engagements that would reposition the party ahead of the 2023 elections.

He, therefore, charged the Governors Forum, the Board of Trustees, and the National Executive Committee to “take a deliberate step to arrest the present drift of the party in the hands of a man who has no capacity to lead a 21st century opposition party like PDP”, adding that “the time to take action is now. Tomorrow may be too late.”

The statement read further, “Prince Uche Secondus should respond to the invitation of the anti-graft agency, instead of playing ostrich, in a renewed bid to recover the party from those who have not added value to it.

“Transparency, openness, probity, and accountability are the veritable ingredients to nurture a holistic society where rule of law and justice prevail, in driving governance and utility-driven leadership.

“The present leadership of the PDP under Uche Secondus has made the party an endangered specie that is now vulnerable to so many frailties and fractures.”

According to him, “an opposition party that should be gaining momentum in the face of the incompetent leadership of the country is painfully losing momentum with depleted membership on a regular basis.

“That is not cheering news at all. The time to show Secondus and his co-travellers the exit door is now. We need to act fast before the apocalypse.”