PDP Chieftain Demands Secondus’ Resignation Over Ayade’s Defection To APC

Prince Kassim Afegbua, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus over the defection of Cross Rivers State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Afegbua, who is from Ward 5 in Okpella, Edo state in a statement said: ” I have reiterated the fact that the present leadership of the peoples’ Democratic Party under Prince Uche Secondus has outlived its usefulness and therefore deserves to be shown the exit door or voluntarily resign.”

He said, “I had predicted in the course of my interrogation that Governors Ayade, Mutawalle, and Ikpeazu would soon exit the party, as well as Fani-Kayode and Senator Grace Bent, simply because the Secondus leadership is bereft of ideas and lacks the capacity to lead a virile opposition”.

” Under his phlegmatic leadership, the PDP has lost two serving Governors while others are in the queue to exit the party. Uche Secondus is killing the party day by day because he does not have what it takes to pilot the affairs of the opposition”.

“Right before our very eyes, we have lost two former Speakers, Dogara and Bankole, former Governor Gbenga Daniel has left, David Umahi and Ben Ayade have both left, making the party vulnerable to the average Nigerian mind”.

“The stakeholders of the party should move beyond mere meetings to push away Secondus as a way to re-ignite, reboot and rejig the party for more constructive engagements that would reposition the party ahead of the 2023 elections”.

” The Governors Forum, the Board of Trustees and the National Executive Committee must take a deliberate step to arrest the present drift of the party in the hands of a man who has no capacity to lead a 21st century opposition party like PDP. The time to take action is now. Tomorrow may be too late.

Prince Uche Secondus should respond to the invitation of the anti-graft agency, instead of playing ostrich, in a renewed bid to recover the party from those who have not added value to it.