The Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP), said the position of the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) recognising Rt. Hon. SKE Udeh-Okoye as the substantive national secretary of the PDP is in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement on the matter last Friday.
The professionals said after reflecting on the apex court judgment, Okoye having emerged through the internal democratic processes in line with provisions of the PDP Constitution, remains the PDP national secretary.
The body said judgment decisively affirmed the supremacy of political parties in the management of their internal affairs including determination of its officials, membership and even nomination of candidates for election among others, to which the courts have no jurisdiction.
Protem national coordinator CP-PDP, Barr. Obinna Nwachukwu, in a statement, noted that the judgment has strengthened the nation’s democracy by affirming the powers of political parties to internally determine their structures and operations in compliance with the provisions of their Constitutions and Guidelines.
“Against this backdrop, the Conference stands with the stated position of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP in recognizing Rt. Hon. SKE Udeh-Okoye as the substantive National Secretary of the PDP, Okoye having emerged through the internal democratic processes in line with provisions of the PDP Constitution.
“The Conference urges Rt. Hon. Udeh-Okoye to brace up and join hands with other members of the NWC to further stabilize the PDP by instilling discipline, reconciliations, unity of purpose and strengthening our party’s structure across the country for the task ahead.
The Conference again urges the leadership of the PDP to sanitise the party by immediately expelling the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from the party.
The CP-PDP however expressed shock and dismay over what it called the manipulative and overbearing action of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led leadership of the National Assembly in approving the unconstitutional suspension of a democratically elected governor and legislature of a state by President Bola Tinubu in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
“The Conference describes the action of the APC-led leadership of the National Assembly as a total betrayal of public trust and demands for the immediate resignation of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“The CP-PDP urges Nigerians to defend the nation’s democracy by speaking out against the constitutional violations by the APC,” Nwachukwu said.
