PDP Crisis Deepens As Staff Slams Party Leadership Again

The battle between the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the secretariat staff deepened, yesterday, as the workers described the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party as “obsessively corrupt”.

The face-off between the PDP and the workers started after the latter said it would reduce its staff strength by 50 percent while cutting the salaries and allowances of the remaining workers by half.

The workers, had on Friday, levelled some allegations against the PDP NWC which they asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate. They have also accused the PDP leadership of corrupt practices and causing the defeat of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan in the general elections.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, described the allegations as baseless.

The workers, under the aegis of the PDP Staff Welfare Association, yesterday, dismissed Metuh’s allegation that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was using them to destabilise the PDP.

“We are not surprised that the allegation will become the most fashionable means of covering tracks. The allegation is a wide window into the impressionable character of the man who has been in saddle as the party’s image-maker and an ominous signpost into the shallow manner the publicity of the party has been run,” the staff said in a statement signed by their Chairman, Ngozi Nzeh, and Secretary Dan Ochu-Baiye.

“We therefore place on record that the majority of the establishment staff of the PDP are not just unrepentant members of the party who have spent over 16 years in service; who have assimilated the PDP ethos as a way of political life, but are also the repository of the party’s institutional memory whose spirit can hardly succumb to the ephemerality of power loss.

“Who plays anti-party activities, you may ask? Staff members who are genuinely resisting the morally repugnant and obsessively corrupt NWC so that the PDP will survive or some NWC members who have the track record of anti-party activities especially the one who openly endorsed the APGA candidate in the 2013 Anambra governorship election, the subsequent denigration of PDP candidate and his chances on live television program less than 24hours after the election, even as the result was being awaited?

“Again, we have incontrovertible evidence that some of the NWC members worked assiduously against the presidential candidate of the PDP, former President Goodluck Jonathan, in the last election in order to get back at the ex-President for rejecting them in strategic campaign offices, a development which came after they had squandered 450 million naira earlier approved by President Jonathan.

“We wish to therefore advise the NWC to respond to issues raised in our Friday press briefing without which the fortunes of the party will continue to dwindle.”

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