….Congress to carry as scheduled, Ikem insists
By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar
The Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) in Cross River State is going through a worsening inner disaster following conflicting directives over the state congress to elect a brand new State Working Committee (SWC).
On Wednesday, the occasion’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, in an unsigned press launch, introduced the postponement of the congress, which was earlier scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 2025.
Additionally, recall an earlier assertion by the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, which directed the South South Zonal Caretaker Committee, headed by Emmanuel Ogidi, to imagine management of the state chapter’s affairs pending recent elections, citing the expiration of the present government’s tenure.
Nevertheless, state PDP Chairman, Venatius Ikem, vehemently rejected the directive, insisting that the congress will maintain as deliberate.
He accused some former occasion stakeholders of making a man-made disaster to impose their most well-liked candidates whereas spearheading the emergence of the coalition platform on the identical time within the state.
Ikem, who’s a member of the occasion’s Nationwide Govt Committee (NEC), acknowledged emphatically that his tenure stays legitimate till September 29, 2025. He maintained that the NEC, not the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC), fastened the date for the congress and that the NWC lacks the constitutional authority to change it.
“The NWC shouldn’t be the NEC, of which I’m a member. They don’t have any ethical, authorized, or constitutional authority to overrule the NEC’s resolution,” Ikem declared.
He vowed to problem the purported dissolution of the state government in court docket if essential, stressing that every one logistical preparations for the Congress had been already in place.
“The state congress can be organised by the state chapter. The nationwide committee’s function is to observe, to not dictate,” he stated.
Responding to claims that his tenure had expired, Ikem introduced paperwork to again his place. “Our election was held on September 18, 2021, and we had been sworn in on September 29. I’ve submitted my oath of workplace and allegiance. Let anybody claiming in any other case produce theirs,” he insisted.
The unfolding dispute has left the PDP in Cross River deeply divided, elevating considerations about unity forward of essential political battles within the state.
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