Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC) Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said the October 30-31, 2021 date for the party’s national convention remains sacrosanct despite legal issues.
He said this in a statement issued yesterday by the NCOC on the case instituted at the High Court in Kaduna to prevent the party from holding its national convention on the scheduled date.
He said the convention was not meant to witch-hunt anyone or truncate anyone’s mandate and called on all members and supporters of the party to ignore what it called “distraction.”
The suspended national chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has asked the leading opposition party to stop making moves towards the conduct of its national convention scheduled for October 30 and 31, 2021 or any other date, pending the hearing and final determination of his appeal to the effect.
Secondus, in a letter dated October 21, 2021 and addressed to the party (6th respondent) by his counsel, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), is asking the court to restrain the party from holding the convention.
But the convention organising committee, while reacting, urged all party faithful to continue to rally support for it as it prepares to hold the convention.
It also urged its teeming supporters nationwide to keep the faith while taking all necessary measures to ensure that “we will not be distracted from our goal.”
The statement reads: “The PDP NCOC is using this medium to alert members of our party and members of the public that we are aware of the actions of a few misguided PDP members who have approached the High Court in Kaduna in an attempt to prevent our great party, the PDP from holding its National Convention on October 30 and 31, 2021.
“Notwithstanding their right to approach a court of competent jurisdiction to air their grievances, we maintain that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP has acted in good faith in fixing our convention for October 30 and 31. It is not meant to witch-hunt anyone or to truncate anyone’s mandate.
“Therefore, we call on all members and supporters of the PDP to ignore this distraction as we prepare to host a convention that will send a clear signal to Nigerians that the PDP is the only party that has the will and the might to rescue Nigeria from the catastrophe that we have been enduring for the past six years.
“We are aware that a clearly united PDP is a threat to the forces that seek to divide us.
“We are determined to strengthen our party structure and put in the work needed to unify and restore our great nation back on the path to economic prosperity and greatness.”
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