A former member of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon Nwabueze Ugwu, Monday, called for the resignation of all the State Working Committee members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
His call followed the verbal attack on the party by former Governor, Sullivan Chime who dumped the party recently. Chime’s destination is believed to be the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In a press statement he issued in Enugu, Ugwu said all the party hierarchy in the State should resign over he called their suspicious silence to Chime’s statement.
His statement read: “Penultimate week, the immediate past governor of Enugu State, Bar Sullivan Iheanacho Chime, himself a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a top notcher of the embattled party, reportedly in a press conference, made some very insightful but confounding statements on the state of the PDP and declared inter alia that the PDP was not only dead, but had been cremated.
“The very erudite former Enugu Chief executive known for his candour is entitled to his opinion and as a member of the party, it is my very candid opinion that he has enough latitude and clout to ventilate the issue within the party instead of going to the press.
“However, it is not the intengment of this press statement to join issues with His Excellency who may have acted in the interest of our great party.
However, my angst and anxiety are fixated on the deafening silence of the PDP apparatus within the state, from the ward, through the Local Government, to the State levels, who has not deemed it fit to respond to that statement, thereby giving the impression that Chime had bespoken their minds and those of other PDP members.
”This lethargic position of the elected PDP leaders in Enugu State is inexplicable, mischievous, ominous, and worrisome; as it is a manifest complicity. This culture of silence then translates to a vindication of Chime’s position, whose thrust is quaint; to wit: that PDP was not only dead, but cremated; little wonder nobody has countered what he has said.
“I wish to place it on record that the loyalty of the people of Enugu State remains, unwavering and strong, being as it were, that the PDP is still seen as a better option any day given the bungling of the ruling party at the centre and elsewhere under its influence. Enugu State remains in the vanguard of the PDP, what with it producing the highest PDP elected representative in the present government.
“Conversely, it is the ruling party, the APC which is dead in Enugu State and has remained so even with the recent defections.
“In the light of all these, it becomes incumbent on all the PDP executives in the State, from Ward through Local Government Areas to the State levels to resign en masse for perceived anti-party activities manifest in their complicity and complacent position on Bar Sullivan Chime’s declaration that the party they swore to lead at various levels, was dead and cremated.”
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