Personal Interests Fueled PDP Crisis Ahead of 2023 General Election

The Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) is presently en­meshed in a convo­luted crisis which – accord­ing to inside sources – was precipitated by an over­riding pursuit of personal interest by party big wigs.

Unfortunately, the crisis – if not well-managed – could prove to be, the sources not­ed, the party’s biggest undo­ing.

According to Angel Network News sources, the internal wrangling in the PDP, which once described itself as the biggest party in Africa party, has its roots in the political ma­noeuvres being orches­trated by party gladiators ahead of 2023.

It was gathered that the battle to remove the Nation­al Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, is intended to pave the way for some politicians ahead of the 2023 presidential elec­tion and also to ensure that he doesn’t preside, nomi­nate, or appoint members of committee for the national convention due to hold in December.

Aside this, the battle is also to ensure that he doesn’t fulfill his ambition of com­ing back for a second term as National Chairman of the party for some reasons.

But what began like a joke soon snowballed into a national row of immense proportion by Tuesday when about seven national officers put in their resignations while some members of the National Working Commit­tee (NWC) threatened to re­sign, citing bad treatment and incompetence in the management of the affairs of the party.

Even though they have re­canted their initial moves to resign, it was reported that those members who earli­er put in their resignations and others who threatened to resign were financially induced by an influential governor.

Secondus, according to some party members at the national secretariat, who was plotting to come back for another term, had not been managing the party very well.

The party members claimed that Secondus’ han­dling of the party’s funds was not transparent, and that there was no proper documentation.

The sources added that no one could actually account for how the party’s money was spent, including money realized from elections, espe­cially from the purchase of nomination and expression of interest forms, amongst others.