Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Samuel Anyanwu has described the party’s convention held over the weekend in Ibadan as a “jamboree.”
Anyanwu responded in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday after being expelled at the convention.
During the event, the party also expelled Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti.
Others were Umar Bature, Ajibade Kamarudeen, Mao Ohabunwa, Uwachukuwu George, Turner Dan Orbih, Mohammed Abdulrahman, Austin Nwachukwu, and Abraham Amah.
Additionally, the PDP disbanded its organisations in the states of Imo, Abia, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers.
Anyanwu said the event was “illegitimate”.
“Sixteen states had not even done their congresses; the entire south-east has not done their congress — all that happened yesterday [at the convention] was a jamboree,” he said
“Even the ones done earlier have not been communicated to INEC. When I heard somebody yesterday at the convention, when they were celebrating, having their jamboree, saying that we must obey the rules of the party, I laughed.”
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He insisted that the exercise, which took place from Saturday until early Sunday, was not an inclusive convention because a number of state delegates were not there.
Recall that Bode George, a member of the board of trustees (BoT), moved for the punitive punishment.
“I just told you that I was not expelled. Who expelled me? What platform do they have to expel me? And even beside that, even when they tried to do that, remember when they were forming this, supposedly they didn’t,” Anyanwu said.
“This is a committee headed by Tom Ikimi, which is saying that they have been committed to my suspension. It was not today. I went to court. It’s a court judgment. It’s a court order.”
Until his expulsion, Anyanwu was the suspended national secretary of the party.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, a new leadership of the party was elected to be headed by Kabiru Turaki, the former minister of special duties and intergovernmental affairs.
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