Obinna Uchendu Abakaliki
A Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi state, Barr. Silas Onu has called on the general public to disregard any purported PDP Congress organized and held at the party secretariat at the weekend.
Barr. Onu said that no Congress was organized in the State insisting that what happened over the weekend was a gathering of some political friends and not a State Congress.
Speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, Barr. Onu said that the organizers has violated a valid court order that had earlier barred them from carrying out such activities.
“There is no faction in Ebonyi PDP. What happened was an attempt by a greedy individual who think that the political party belong to him. He wants to hijack the party simply because he was mistakenly sent to go and represent Ebonyi at the National Working Committee, NWC of the party.
“Since then, he has become a problem to everybody in the party. You don’t organize a congress when there is court order, saying don’t do any. Not one, not two. There are many cases in court and the court said, don’t do anything until I finish hearing these case.
“Anybody who goes about saying he did a Congress, is doing so as a direct affront to a valid court order, and whatever the person did is simply wasting his or her time.
“No Congress held in Ebonyi, it was just a gathering of friends. We hear a rumour that he was given money to do that and destabilize PDP in Ebonyi. We don’t know how true it is, but it will appear that he wants to retire the money that was given to him.
“This person is supposed to be a National officer of the Party, although he has been suspended. What he did was targeted at rasing dust, but it’s an effort in futility and will hold no water” he stated.