The Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, Cross River chapter has mentioned that the scheduled September 27, 2025 congress will happen.
The State Working Committee, SWC, made the declaration in Calabar on Thursday.
Venatius Ikem, the Chairman of the SWC, famous a press release by the nationwide publicity secretary of the get together suspending the congress however insisted that it will maintain as deliberate.
The get together had been battling with the SWC within the state with the announcement of the committee dissolution earlier than the tip of its tenure.
It additionally directed the South-South Zonal Caretaker committee to take over the operating of the state chapter till a brand new management was elected.
It defined that this was crucial so as to not go away a vacuum within the state management because the tenure of the SWC had expired.
Nevertheless, Ikem debunked the declare that the tenure of SWC, which he leads, had expired whereas insisting that the Congress would maintain as deliberate on Saturday.
He alleged that some individuals who needed to take over the affairs of the State Chapter of the PDP have been bent on making a disaster the place none existed.
Ikem alleged that the purported dissolution of the SWC, which was but to run out on September 29, was to have approach for the emergence of most well-liked candidates within the congress.
“The Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, is just not the Nationwide Govt Committee, NEC, of which I’m a member.
“The NEC of the get together mounted that date, September 27 for the Congress and the one 5 or so individuals of the NWC which can be right here can not, of their social media platform, start to churn out ridiculous guidelines.
“So, they can’t; they haven’t any ethical authority, no authorized authority, no constitutional authority, to go behind NEC to make such a choice.
Based on him, as a member of NEC, I do know that there are situations the place they will take choices on behalf of NEC, however not on this, not in this sort of scenario.
Ikem insisted that the Congress would maintain as deliberate as every part, logistics, had been put in place for a profitable Congress on Saturday.
He mentioned that the NEC or the NWC, particularly, had no proper to organise a congress for any state however every organ of the get together was empowered to organise congress in response to the extent.
He defined that the state congress can be organised by the state chapter at its degree whereas the committee from nationwide must monitor it.
