Secondus Wishes PDP Well, as He Heads to Supreme Court.

Prince Uche Secondus, the controversial National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, has gone to the Supreme Court to appeal the verdict of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, which approved the party’s National Convention in Abuja on Saturday (today).

He stated that impunity, which he claimed had pushed the party to the brink of collapse and threatened its internal democracy and unity, must be avoided at all costs.

Secondus told one of our correspondents that he had asked his lawyers to appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court in the sake of justice.

He said if those who orchestrated and foisted what he described as an avoidable crisis on the party had listened to “wise counsel of party leaders and elders who advised the withdrawal of cases, this situation would have been avoidable. I wish the party well as always.”

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On Friday, the appeal Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, dismissed Secondus’s appeal seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the PDP from holding its National Convention in Abuja on October 30 and 31, 2021.

The three-member appeal panel decided that Secondus lacked the authority to halt the party’s scheduled convention, pointing out that national party leadership was not solely the appellant’s domain (Secondus).

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According to the court, he did not join the party’s interim National Chairman, Yemi Akinwonmi, in the suit contesting his (Akinwonmi’s) nomination by the party, claiming that the right he claimed to be preserving had been removed and granted to Akinwonmi by the same party.

Justice Gabriel Kolawale, who read the ruling of the three-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, also noted that Secondus did not indicate interest in his application to continue as the PDP’s national chairman after being suspended, nor did he indicate any interest in re-contesting for the position upon the expiration of his tenure on December 9, 2021, implying that the application was a distraction to the planned national Convention