PRP suspends Anambra chair for violating party’s constitution

The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Anambra has imposed a two-month suspension on its state Chairman, Mr Mathias Aninwachukwu for violating the party’s constitution.

The suspension order was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the party’s meeting yesterday.

It noted that the chairman’s style of leadership was incapable of leading the party to victory in the Nov. 18 gubernatorial poll in the state.

The communiqué signed by 10 out of the party’s 15 state executive council members, accused the chairman of high handedness in handling the affairs of the party.

It claimed that Aninwachukwu ran the party as a personal business and had failed to convene statutory meetings of the state working committee and the state executive committee.

“He unilaterally accepted a gubernatorial aspirant and attempted to make him a consensus candidate and BoT member at the same time; failed to open bank account as well as render appropriate accounts of the funds accruable to the party,” it said.

However, Aninwachukwu had dismissed the report of his suspension, insisting that he remained the authentic PRP chairman in Anambra.

“I already spoke with the national officers, who assured me that my position as the state chairman is intact and that I should ignore the said communiqué,” he said. (NAN)