A factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering Board of Trustees, PDP-BoT, Mao Ohuabunwa, says politicians who met in Ibadan on Saturday merely attended a social end-of-year occasion amongst pals.
This was as he described as illegitimate and product of an unauthorised gathering his expulsion from the get together
Ohuabunwa, in a press release by his media workplace on Monday additionally rejected a gathering introduced to be held on the PDP nationwide secretariat in Abuja.
The Abia Senator insisted that solely the duly scheduled BoT assembly and the Nationwide Govt Committee session, fastened for Tuesday, would proceed as deliberate.
Ohuabunwa, an ally of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, described the just-concluded Nationwide Elective Conference of the get together in Ibadan, Oyo State, as inconsequential.
“It’s amusing for anybody to recommend that I, a founding father and present chairman of the conscience of our get together, was expelled at a social gathering that some persons are calling a conference,” he stated.
Ohuabunwa recalled being current on the landmark 1998 assembly on the outdated Abuja Sheraton Resort, now the Continental Resort, the place the PDP was conceived by statesmen resembling Alex Ekwueme, Solomon Lar and Adamu Ciroma.
He known as on get together members throughout the nation to stay calm, noting that a number of court docket rulings, together with the Federal Excessive Court docket orders barring the get together from holding any conference, are awaiting willpower on the Court docket of Attraction.
“As loyal get together women and men, it’s incumbent on us to observe the legislation.
“We should look ahead to the courts and, on the similar time, embrace reconciliation and unity,” he added.
