Fresh crisis which has been brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party over the office of the party’s national chairman erupted in Abuja on Tuesday as a former Special Adviser on Political Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, stormed the party’s secretariat in anger.
Gulak told journalists that he had informed members of the National Working Committee of the PDP that its Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, should leave office immediately.
He said he had submitted a letter to the NWC informing them that another person from the North-East should replace Alhaji Adamu Muazu, who resigned after the party’s dismal performance at the last elections.
Gulak told journalists that the party’s constitution allows just three months for the position of acting chairman, after which a substantive chairman from the same zone as the chairman who resigned may take over as may be nominated by the party’s National Executive Committee.
He said, “My visit was to bring in writing to the notice of the party, my intention to replace the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, after his voluntary resignation.”
“As a member, and by virtue of the constitution, I know there’s a vacancy. So it needs to be filled and I’m here to fill it. We need vibrant, bold and courageous leadership in PDP.
“The resignation of the former chairman was done voluntarily. And maybe due to the disastrous outing of the party in the last election, he decided to resign as a man who wants to take responsibility for his actions.
“The position of the constitution is that when a principal officer of the party resigns, the replacement should come from the zone from which the outgone person had come.”
He berated the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, for suggesting that the South-West should produce the next national chairman of the party, saying that the governor must be ignorant of the party’s constitution.
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