BREAKING: Disarray In PDP As Leadership Splits Into Factions

• On Monday, a court in Port Harcourt issued an order restraining Secondus from parading himself as PDP National Chairman, and also, from taking part in any activity of the party while the order lasts.

On Tuesday, there was disarray within the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as two factions emerged.

One faction was being led by the Deputy National Chairman (South), Elder Yemi Akinwonmi while the deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Suleiman Nazif, has taken charge of the other.

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The two Deputies are laying claim to the position of the National Chairman, to fill the leadership gap created by the suspension of the substantive National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus.

On Monday, a court in Port Harcourt issued an order restraining Secondus from parading himself as PDP National Chairman, and also, from taking part in any activity of the party while the order lasts.

Akinwonmi faction had announced the postponement of the NWC meeting earlier scheduled for today “until further notice to allow for broader consultations in the overall interest of our party.”

However, Nine members of the National Working Committee of the party under the leadership of the Nazif, in defiance of an earlier announcement by Akinwonmi, held a meeting and announced that an emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the party would hold on Friday.

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