PDP CRISIS: Amaechi’s Loyalists' Boycott Is A Welcome Development - Obuah-led PDP

The Felix Obuah-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State swiftly reacted to decision by Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s loyalists to boycott PDP National Mini Convention scheduled for Saturday, describing it as a welcome development with not consequences for the Convention.

Special Adviser to the State PDP Chairman, Jerry Needam, in a statement said the boycott would be inconsequential for State delegates’ list of the Abuja Convention. He said it would rather “help filter the State delegates of infiltrators, untrustworthy elements and expelled members of the Party," adding that

“It is no longer news that Amaechi and his allies are acting this way as it was glaring that they have over the period been playing destructive politics and have surreptitiously, although not hidden to us, been making frantic moves to join and, or form another political party."

“This was again confirmed by the expelled Chief of Staff, Government House, Tony Okocha, representing Gov. Amaechi, who said the option of joining another party was being considered in view of their ‘suffocation’ in PDP," reads the statement.

Needam further said that the party has never tolerated “insubordination and disrespect" within PDP.

The statement concluded that the decision of the Amaechi loyalists would allow PDP to conduct the convention "peacefully".

It will be reminded, that the Rivers State delegates loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday, declared a boycott of PDP's mini-convention. The boycott is meant to protest what Amaechi-loyalists described as the indifference of the national PDP leadership’s to the crisis rocking the state PDP and illegal suspension of Governor Amaechi by the party.

Source: Legit.ng