S’east PDP meets, insists on Udeh- Okoye as national secretary

THE Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) in the South East has urged the National Working Committee ( NWC) and other organs of the party to ratify Sunday UdehOkoye as the party’s National Secretary in line with the zone’s decision, the party’s Constitution and a valid court order.

Leaders of the party decried the mistreatment of the zone by the PDP despite being the bastion of the party since inception, insisting that they would no longer tolerate the delay in the ratification of UdehOkoye as the National Secretary, as the zone is not a slave to the PDP.

The South East PDP took the stand, yesterday, in a communique issued at the end of a meeting of the South East Zonal Executive Committee and party leaders, which was held in Enugu under the leadership of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State and PDP National Vice Chairman ( South East), Ali Odefa.

Also in attendance at the meeting was the Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees ( BOT), Adolphus Wabara, among a host of others.

At the meeting, Mbah said: “We have carried the banner of PDP in the South East with great pride. So, when we have come together, as a people on a matter that affects us as PDP members in the South East and a decision is taken in line with our party’s Constitution and the electoral guidelines, I think it would be a mistake if that position is disrespected.”

This was even as Wabara expressed sadness over the triviality with which the PDP had treated the South East zone of the party.

He said: “I believe that we are here to decide whether we, the South East, will continue to be slaves in this party. I feel pain that the Igbo are being mistreated. We are being treated like slaves. Therefore, we will leave here with a far- reaching decision and that decision must be carried out. That is why we are here.”