Court Restores Secondus as PDP National Chairman; Party Loses Senator To APC

The merry-go-round crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continued Thursday evening when the Prince Uche Secondus, its embattled Chairman was restored to office.

A Press release from his Media Office, signed by his Special Adviser, Media, Ike Abonyi, announced his restoration.

The release reads:

“Justice Nusirat. I. Umar, a vacation Judge of the Kebbi state High Court ,on Thursday, 26 August, 2021, ordered Prince Uche Secondus to return to his position as the National Chairman.

“Giving the order in a suit brought before her in Birinin Kebbi, the state capital in case KB/AC/M. 170/2021, Justice Umar said she was satisfied after reading the affavidit of the respondents that an interim order should be granted on the purported suspension of Prince Secondus pending the determination of the case.

“An order of this Honourable court granting leave to the first respondent (Uche Secondus) to continue exercising all the constitutional powers of the office of Chairman of PDP (second defendant ) as enshrined in both 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended and the Peoples Democratic Party’s constitution pending the hearing and final determination of applicant’s motion on notice. ”

Three concerned members of the party, Yahaya Usman , Abubakar Mohammed and Bashar Suleman are the claimants/Applicant in the case while Prince Secondus and the PDP are the defendants/Respondents”

A High Court in Degema, Rivers State, had a couple of days ago suspended Secondus from parading himself as the Chairman of the PDP.  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, is believed to be leading the Secondus must-go agenda thus throwing the party into a deep crisis.

Meanwhile, the PDP continues to lose a number of its high profile members to the ruling APC. On Thursday, Senator Stella Oduah, Anambra North joined the bandwagon of decampees to the APC.

She was received into the APC fold by Party stalwarts at a ceremony in Abuja.