Imo PDP Critical stakeholders, writes BoT, wants NWC dissolved
By Chidi Ebere
A group known as the Imo State PDP Critical Stakeholders, has sent a worded letter to the People’s Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, calling for the immediate dissolution of the umbrella party’s National Working Committee, NWC.
In a letter signed by the spokesperson of the body, Comrade Kenneth Chukwuemeka Akunnakwe, with the title; “Call for the immediate dissolution of the PDP NWC, the Critical Stakeholders” , stated the grounds on which it is calling for the sacking of the NWC.
According to it, “Conscious of the gross ineptitude, as well as the clearly unpardonable cumulative poor performance of the present National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in the last two years of its existence especially during the 2023 general election, it has become obvious that the NWC as presently constituted, has completely exhausted its capability and capacity to manage the affairs of the party.
“It therefore becomes imperative, even to point of urgent national emergency for the survival of the Nigerian democracy, for a new, vibrant, dedicated, purposeful, and visionary NWC to be put in place to replace this wobbling, non visionary and invariably self – serving NWC”.
The Imo PDP Critical Stakeholdersย said that, “It is saying the obvious to reiterate that an overwhelming majority of our party members across the length and breadth of this country are yearning for true party management and leadership which the current NWC unfortunately is unable to offer, no matter how long it stay on office”.
“If our great party must be given this new lease of life and a fresh breath, the present NWC members must be promptly dissolved.
“For us, the Imo State Critical Stakeholders, it is apparently unfathomable how our great PDP, once the biggest party in the black world, most admired in Africa and most followed in Nigeria has unimaginably been allowed to descend from its olympian heights of greatness to the lowest ebb of lack – lustre performance”.
The group regretted that forces the PDP swallowed previously were then posing serious challenges to the once celebrated biggest party in the Black World, “We have followed dejectedly, how our hitherto respected party, with all its intimidating credentials and gracious appeal, is systematically being annihilated by lower forces it previously trampled upon” it enthused.
It therefore blamed the NWC for all the troubles in PDP in recent times: “After critically analyzing the sordid affairs which are currently suffocating and dismantling our great party, we have come to the conclusion that the PDP NWC should be blamed for the unfathomable rot ravaging our once great national party.
T”he Imo State PDP Critical Stakeholders are emboldened by indubitable facts to lay the blames for our dear party’s dismal performances at the door – steps of the NWC. In our our last correspondence to you dated June 8, 2023 we stated the various failings of the NWC and why it must be dissolved”.
The group highlighted the ills of the NWC as follows: “Never in the history of the PDP has its NWC been this complacent that it does not take any interest in matters affecting and destroying the party nationwide. We have been crying out loudly about the horrible situation in Imo State where our governorship candidate for the November 11, 2023 election, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, is a known mole of the All Progressive Congress (APC), even as he had been working to tear the party apart. For months now, the NWC has not given a hoot about investigating our claims or moving to call Senator Anyanwu to order.
” We reported that throughout the entire period of presidential campaigns, Senator Anyanwu as the National Secretary of our dear party neither attended nor sent a representative to any of the several rallies organized in Imo State for our presidential candidate, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar. We sought for reasons and queried why the National Secretary who incidentally hails from Imo State was not bothered. Yet, the NWC never saw any reason to respond to those germaine questions.
“The current lack-lustre NWC abysmally failed to manage the party’s 2023 presidential campaigns; disappointingly fluffed our 2023 successes through its misguided supervision of governorship primaries across the states. Worse still, this is a NWC that unimaginably could not adequately respond to the challenge manufactured by the so-called G5 – Governors.
“We are bringing to the fore, the complicity of some members of the NWC where handshakes were monetized and its outrageous grandstanding could not muster courage to sanction erring senior party members who found it convenient joining the opposition elements at the detriment of the party.
” And now, once again, the NWC stood in total confusion and could not coordinate the party strategies to guide it to a successful elections in the leadership of the 10th National Assembly. This really dramatizes the NWC’s leadership ineptitude and crass negligence of duty”.
It then prayed thus: “Therefore, as the Imo PDP Critical Stakeholders, we are constrained to submit the following prayers to the PDP BOT as follows;
“One, the BOT should urgently call for an emergency national convention of the party in order to bring to the fore, the multifarious fallouts from the 2023 elections most of which were self- inflicted by the NWC. The emergency national convention shall elect new NWC members who will pilot PDP out of its present purposeless drift and woes.
“Two, the BOT should painstakingly look into our lamentations and requests as presented overleaf and seek for the best ways of tackling them for the interest of the party and good of all party members across Nigeria. PDP is in dire need of a new beginning, a rebranding that will re-incorporate its historical core values that will guide it once again to winning ways. Only an emergency national convention to usher-in a once again vibrant NWC can save our party from its debilitating malaise”.
