By Henry Umoru
ABUJA- CRISIS rocking the Social Democratic Get together, SDP, has taken a brand new dimension because the Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, expelled high officers of the get together, together with its former Nationwide Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, and Nationwide Youth Chief, Mr. Ogbonna Chukwuma Uchechukwu, over allegations of misconduct, monetary misappropriation and abuse of workplace.
The choice was taken on Thursday in Abuja on the finish of the NWC assembly and it was sequel to months of investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
Addressing journalists on the get together’s Nationwide Secretariat, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Rufus Aiyenigba, whereas studying the communique, defined that the transfer adopted the adoption of the report of the Disciplinary Committee and a subsequent White Paper which reviewed the findings and suggestions on the allegations introduced towards the affected officers.
Aiyenigba pressured that the NWC had earlier, on June 24, 2025, suspended the trio Gabam, Uchechukwu, and the Nationwide Auditor, Mr. Clarkson Nnadi, over a prima facie case of misconduct, monetary impropriety, and gross abuse of workplace.
In accordance with him, to make sure due course of, the get together constituted an unbiased Disciplinary Committee on July 4, 2025, which carried out a two-week investigation and submitted its report on July 18, 2025.
The get together’s spokesman emphasised that the NWC thereafter reviewed and adopted the White Paper on August 15, 2025, resulting in at present’s decisive motion.
In accordance with him, these dismissed and expelled are Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam – Former Nationwide Chairman (dismissed and expelled), Mr. Ogbonna Chukwuma Uchechukwu – Former Nationwide Youth Chief (dismissed and expelled).
Others are Mr. Clarkson Nnadi – Former Nationwide Auditor (relieved of duties following voluntary resignation) and eight different members — Adamu Abubakar Modibbo, Abubakar Dogara, Nuraddeen Bisalla, Solsuema Osaro, Ambo Ekpeyong, Eluwa Ifeanyi Henry, Humphrey Unwukaeze, and Judith Israel Shuaibu — for alleged acts of disloyalty and illegal entry into the get together’s nationwide secretariat on July 28, 2025.
Aiyenigba added that the get together expelled members have been caught by safety operatives in possession of delicate paperwork and valuables allegedly faraway from the secretariat and are going through felony prosecution.
In accordance with him, the expulsions have been essential to “restore integrity, self-discipline, and inside order” inside the SDP, including that different administrative suggestions from the White Paper can be carried out to stop future infractions.
“The actions take instant impact from Thursday, October 23, 2025,” the assertion learn partly, including that the selections have been unanimously adopted by members of the Nationwide Working Committee.
The NWC reaffirmed its dedication to upholding transparency, accountability, and constitutional order within the operating of the Social Democratic Get together.
Recall that the NWC of the SDP had on twenty fourth June suspended Gabam over alleged grave allegations of gross monetary misconduct, embezzlement, misappropriation, and diversion of get together funds, simply because the get together additionally suspended two members of the NWC, specifically: Nze Nnadi Clarkson, Nationwide Auditor, and Uchechukwu Chukwuma, Nationwide Youth Chief, over similar offence.
In accordance with an announcement then by SDP Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Araba Rufus Aiyenigba, had mentioned that the choice adopted a decision of a gathering of the NWC, the place overwhelming evidences have been offered linking the suspended officers to a sequence of unauthorised monetary transactions, private enrichment schemes, and motion of funds from the get together’s accounts with out mandatory approvals of the NWC.
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