The Nationwide Vice Chairman, Peoples Democratic get together, PDP, South East Zone, Goodluck Chidiebere Egwu, has said that no congress of the get together was carried out on the Ward, Native Authorities, or State ranges.
Disclosing this in a press release on Friday, the Particular Help to the Nationwide Vice Chairman, PDP South East Zone, Prince Ify Chijoke, identified that “the names being circulated as “executives” are merchandise of a staged charade and carry no legitimacy in anyway.”
The assertion learn, “The Workplace of the Nationwide Vice Chairman, PDP South East Zone, Goodluck Chidiebere Egwu, has been alerted on the false stories circulating in some media claiming {that a} PDP congress was carried out in Ebonyi State and that executives had been elected.
“We state categorically that no lawful PDP congress was carried out in Ebonyi State at Ward, Native Authorities, or State degree.”
He described what transpired as “an unlawful, stage-managed occasion orchestrated by APC-sponsored brokers.
The assertion learn partly:
“By PDP process, the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) was handy congress kinds to the zonal management particularly the Organising Secretary and the Authorized Adviser who would function Chairman and Secretary of the train.
“On Monday, eleventh December 2024, the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abakaliki, presided over by Hon. Justice Hillary I.O. Oshomah, in Go well with No. FHC/AI/CS/183/2024, categorically restrained the PDP (1st defendant) from holding any congress in Ebonyi, and equally barred INEC (2nd defendant) from monitoring such an train. The ruling was clear: the proposed congress lacked due course of and was riddled with irregularities.
“INEC, in its knowledge, obeyed the order and rightly refused to observe or supervise the charade. Importantly, this judgment has not been appealed, neither has it been put aside by any greater courtroom, which makes it legitimate and binding in regulation.
“We’re additionally letting the general public to know that any congress can solely scale by way of if the NWC ratifies and presents it earlier than NEC (Nationwide Government Council) however on this case, it wasn’t. And after that, the Chairman and the Nationwide Secretary would be the one to put in writing to INEC, that the congress that they even monitored was legitimate, and in step with the get together’s tips; however on this case, it wasn’t.
“The NWC, understanding that what occurred the final time “was a joke,” has now confirmed that recent congresses for Ebonyi and Anambra States from wards by way of to native governments and to the state degree, will probably be scheduled sooner or later. For a date will quickly be introduced.
”This press launch is pertinent as a result of we don’t need the general public to be deceived by APC members placing in PDP garb.
“We due to this fact name on all real PDP members and loyalists throughout Ebonyi State, the South East, and Nigeria at massive to stay calm, resolute, and dedicated. No quantity of blackmail, lies, or APC-sponsored propaganda will derail our mission to reposition the PDP and reclaim Ebonyi State in 2027.
