The director general of the ‘Fresh PDP’ Prince Obi-Nwosu Emmanuel has said the splinter group has not been collapsed into the mainstream PDP.
Chairman of the ‘Fresh PDP’ Olukayode Akindele announced Saturday after a meeting of some members of the faction with ex-PDP National Chairman, Okwesilieze Nwodo, that they had collapsed into the mainstream PDP in the interest of Nigeria and for the sake of 2019 general elections.
The faction emerged in protest of the result of the party’s national convention held on December 9, 2017, where Prince Uche Secondus emerged as national chairman of the PDP.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin in a statement yesterday said the BoT played a key role that resulted in the collapse of the ‘Fresh PDP’ on Saturday.
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But in another statement same yesterday, in Abuja, Nwosu who was not at the reconciliation meeting described the action as shameful and "most pathetic show of unbridled poverty and greed exhibited by these individuals masquerading as spokespersons for the Fresh PDP."
Nwosu argued that Chief Akindele and other members of the group had no authority to announce the collapse of the group into the mainstream PDP.
He said the Fresh PDP was set to inaugurate a Central Working Committee (CWC) and not a parallel National Working Committee (NWC) as earlier planned, after a wide consultation.
"These shameless persons who had at various times deployed very untoward means to use the noble Fresh PDP platform as a blackmail tool for the extortion of money from party leaders; have come to their ultimate end.
"No one in his right senses will listen to the characters that purported to have collapsed such a vibrant movement like the Fresh PDP whose ideology has spread across Nigeria like wild fire.
"For the records, my humble self and Svt. Rodney Odili-Obi were the initiators of the Fresh PDP. Every other person that joined the movement was allowed to be a part of Fresh PDP after expressing deep seated desire to join such a noble cause that seek to address impunity and imposition in our great party.
"They have now openly disgraced themselves as they exhibited their inordinate desire for cheap compensation against the high ideals of correcting injustice and ensuring transparency in the coming party primaries; which Fresh PDP was established to achieve.
"Let it be known that Fresh PDP was never setup as a money hunting platform, but strictly as the true PDP that will meet the dreams of the founding fathers of our great party. It was born out of the great necessity to address the injustice, impunity, imposition and corruption that characterised the 9th December, 2017 National Convention of the party.
"No individual or group within or outside Fresh PDP will be allowed to negotiate for pecuniary gains using this noble platform. All those that joined Fresh PDP with the corrupt mind-set of pursuing selfish and divisive agenda; have hit the rock.
"We advise them to quickly join their fellow impostors who have mortgaged their conscience for penny. We hereby warn all our party leaders and members to dissociate themselves from these questionable characters as they do not represent the true Initiators of the noble Fresh PDP.
"May we reiterate our earlier stand that if the party leadership addresses the critical issues which we have raised and make firm commitment to ensure a level playing ground for all aspirant in the coming party primaries, then and only then will this platform be formally united again with the Uche Secondus faction," he said.
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