Speaking with State House correspondents after leading other members of the part’s NWC to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Secondus denied insinuations that the former national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu and the chairman of Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih, were forced to resign, saying the two leaders left voluntarily on their own.
Secondus said he and his colleagues in the NWC were in the Villa to interact with the president as party’s leader. He stressed that the new leadership would re-organise and re-invent the party, and assured, “our teeming supporters and our loyal members that the party is intact without any problem.”
On the call for resignation of the NWC, he said: “You know that is not right, it is unconstitutional, because the (former) chairman did that voluntarily, and the BoT chairman also did that voluntarily. Some of the others have tenures. At the end of our tenure, if we are re-elected, fine, if not, that is the right thing to do. There is no reason for us to resign because we have worked hard.”Taken up on the seeming coincidence of the resignations of both the PDP national chairman and the BoT, Secondus said it was not a blow to the party, adding: “Sometimes it happens that way and nobody forced them to go.”
Apart from the NWC members, the governors of Bayelsa and Ondo states, Seriake Dickson and Olusegun Mimiko respectively, were also in attendance at the meeting, which lasted for over one hour in the president’s office.