By Emmanuel Nduka
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its earlier scheduled National Working Committee (NWC) meeting indefinitely.
Acting Chairman of the party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, on Tuesday, explained that the suspension was a deliberate decision to allow for broader consultation in the overall interest of the party, following the restraining order by a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, stopping Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the leader of the party.
Akinwonmi who took over after the court judgement on Secondus, in a press release made available to journalists in Abuja, said: “Our attention was drawn yesterday evening to a court order which purports to restrain our National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, from summoning and presiding over the meetings of the organs of the party.
“In the foregoing circumstances, as Deputy National Chairman (South) of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, after the consultations and in exercise of the aforesaid powers, hereby deem it fit and proper to postpone the National Working Committee, NWC, meeting earlier scheduled for today until further notice to allow for broader consultations in the overall interest of our part”.
