Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Hon Kwewum Shawulu (PDP-Taraba), has called for the immediate resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus and members of the National Working Committee (NWC).
Hon Shawulu gave the charge via a letter titled: ‘In the interest of our Party, Democracy and the People of Nigeria: Time to do the Needful,’ dated July 6, 2021, and addressed to Secondus, expressed grave disappointment over the party’s inability to provide purposeful opposition and the massive defection of notable PDP members including three PDP Governors and 10 members of the National Assembly, to All Progressives Congress (APC).
As part of the solution proffered to the current crisis, Hon Shawulu said: “Parents sacrifice for their children. Leaders sacrifice for the good of the people they lead. History is replete with examples of leaders who have had to leave their positions so that the people they lead will survive or prosper.
“In several of our cultures in Nigeria, leaders who lead their people into disastrous circumstances commit suicide! Sir, history calls and beckons on you to do the needful, not to die but to live for the party by surrendering leadership, in order for reconciliation and repositioning of the party to begin in earnest for a fresh start.
“You, and indeed, all members of the National Working Committee should make such a sacrifice in the interest of the PDP, Nigeria and democracy. I plead with you Sir, to show leadership today and in the interest of the party, your good name, and the future of Nigeria to resign immediately as National Chairman.
“The 2023 elections are just two years away, with a few off-cycle governorship elections in a few states getting underway in a few months, the party needs time to reorganize, reconcile feuding members and prepare to campaign with well-prepared and articulated programmes to rescue Nigeria from the present morass.
“It bears restating that time is not on our side. You and the current national working committee members will be unable to lead the reconciliation process because you are unfortunately enmeshed in several current controversies.”
Hon. Shawulu who frowned at the unimpressive disposition of the Secondus-led administration towards providing leadership, alleged that: “Unlike other times, when leaders of the party in the House (both the Minority Caucus Leadership and the House PDP Caucus Leadership), put up some form of protest, not a whisper was heard or a hand raised in protest against the decamping!”
The lawmaker, however, acknowledged the role played by Governor Nyesom Wike of River State in the emergence of Secondus as the PDP National Chairman, applauded his contribution to the growth of the party as well as his “virtues of tenacity and commitment to the party and our hope, then, to win the 2019 elections.
“He (Wike) said you were the most experienced and loyal person who would commit everything to the success of the party. Indeed, and according to him, the relentless pursuit of success would be the guide of your actions,” he said.
Hon. Shawulu noted that the “goings-on in the party leaves much to be desired as the Chairman has left it in a place worse than where it was before the exit of its former chairman, Adamu Mua’zu.
“Dear Chairman, Sir, events in the last two years call for sober reflection and sacrifices by both the leadership and membership of the party and it is necessary you set the ball rolling so that the party will come back to life and be seen as a viable alternative to the ruinous APC.
“Then, will its doors be seen to be open to the millions that want to come into the party to mobilize Nigerians to take back the country from the iniquitous forces that have seized it by the jugular?
“This was the obvious wish of the opinion of party members and leaders when Dr Adamu Muazu resigned as Chairman of the party. Your good self, took over to enable the party to regain momentum.
“Presently, without discounting the efforts and sacrifices you have made, it is obvious that our party is in far worse circumstances than when Alhaji Adamu Muazu fled the scene.”
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