The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF, Mr. Pius Anyim, on Friday, said he is disappointed in the action of the National
Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Recall that Anyim, who is a member of the PDP Board of
Trustees, BOT, and three other prominent stakeholders of the party, were
suspended for alleged anti-party activity.
Anyim, a former Senate President, made this known in a
statement, signed and forwarded on Friday, in which he described
the suspension as a display of innate cowardice by the party’s NWC.
The former PDP presidential aspirant, further noted that the
NWC should be blamed for the party’s poor performance in the just-concluded
presidential and National Assembly elections, as well as the governorship and
House of Assembly elections.
According to him: “It smacks of arrogance for the NWC to put
up a bold face instead of showing remorse and being sober for leading the party
to such a colossal loss in the 2023 general elections, thereby dashing the
hopes and expectations of party members and indeed Nigerians.
“It is clear that arising from the leadership style of the
NWC, many members, intentionally and proudly, worked against the party
including members of the NWC. Therefore, it is a display of innate cowardice
for NWC to choose soft targets to suspend and fear those that daily demonise
them,” he said.
He further blamed the National Working Committee of being in
a hurry to suspend prominent stakeholders of the party without recourse to fair
hearing, and, therefore, said that such action is null and void.
Anyim, noted that the party’s leadership, led by Mr.
Iyorchia Ayu, imposed a governorship candidate, Mr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, on
the party members in Ebonyi State.
“In the case of Ebonyi State, the NWC imposed a candidate
from the sitting governor’s zone, contrary to the zoning formula in the state.
Every effort to let the NWC see reason fell on deaf ears,” he stated.
Anyim said that he is proud to have supported the APC
gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi State to win the election, “because that
conforms to the equitable formula in Ebonyi State.”
He called on the leadership of PDP, to reverse the
suspension for the interest of the party.
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