Ahmed Ali Gulak, the former political adviser to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has as$umed the chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party with effect from Wednesday, December 30.
According to the spokesman of Gulak, Ochuba Emmanuel, the ex-political adviser has purportedly cancelled the planned congress being planned by the sacked acting chairman, Uche Secondus.
Daily Trust reported that Gulak as$umption of duty was sequel to the declarative judgment by a High Court in Abuja, on December 16 that ordered Secondus to vacate office as acting chair of the party.
The court also ordered that the sacked chairman should hand over to on or before December 29 to either Gulak or any person from the northeast zone in Nigeria.
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“The Court went further to make an Order of perpetual injunction against Prince Uche Secondus, restraining him from continuing to act in the office of the National Chairman of PDP. In disobedience to the court Order, Prince Uche Secondus did not vacate office, nor hand over to the plaintiff, or any other person from the North-east zone of Nigeria,” Emmanuel said
It was learnt that a detailed letter was sent by Gulak’s lawyer to Independent National Electoral Commission and the BoT of the PDP stating that Gulak is now the ‘authentic national chairman’ of the PDP, pending the election of a national chairman.
The spokesman said: “Alhaji Gulak has also cancelled the congresses already scheduled by Prince Secondus, declaring it illegal as the National Executive Committee (NEC) did not meet to ratify the dates. He said new dates shall be announced in due course after a NEC meeting.”
He called on PDP members across the country to remain calm and law abiding saying that party will be soon rebranded.
It was learnt that the national secretariat of the party was heavily guarded by security operatives.
Reacting to this new development, the national publicity of the party, Olisa Metuh said that there is no change of chairman of the party.
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Metuh explained that Gulak cannot emerge as the national chairman without the Appeal Court delivering on the stay of execution filed by the party.
“We don’t have a new political party. What we have is the PDP and the acting national chairman is Prince Uche Secondus. So it is not true, it is not possible and nobody can be rewarded for saying that Gulak is the new PDP national chairman. We have filed a stay of execution at the appeal court.
“There is no judgment that Gulak should be made the national chairman of the PDP. We don’t expect a new PDP national chairman without NEC. With the stay of execution filed at the appeal court, you can’t expect a new national chairman of the PDP now until this season is over,” the spokesman said.
The former political adviser explained that Jonathan as the number one citizen of the country must account for the actions of officers he appointed whether he is aware or not of their actions.
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