.REJECTS SHAM CONVENTION
By INNOCENT Igwe
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Imo State Chapter,has urged it’s members, supporters and stakeholders to completely disregard the news making the rounds that it’s structure has been dissolved as such is only a wishful thought existing in the imaginations of it’s purveyors.
In a Press Statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Lancelot Obiaku and made available to Daily Nigerian Horn,the Party also firmly and outrightly rejects the sham PDP National convention.
It stated that the PDP is yet to conduct it’s Elective National Convention to elect new national officers adding that what happened on November 15th and 16th was a mere gathering of a lawless committee of friends for a tea party, “which attempted a ludicrous overreach that ultimately ends in futility” it said.
According to the statement,the plotters of the meeting,in their desperation, desecrated the party’s constitution, the Electoral Act, and the Constitution of the Country with a phantom Convention that paraded suspended and expelled members as part of the organizers , without delegates from Ebonyi, Anambra, and Enugu, States and others which currently have no valid State Executive.
Pointing out that they also disobeyed binding and subsisting judgements of the Federal High Court,Abuja, delivered by Hon Justice James Omotosho on October 31,2025 and Hon Justice Peter Odo Lifa on November 14,2025,which on accounts of the obvious abuse of process,constitutional infractions and other irregularities, including the usurpation of the powers and functions of the National Secretary and National Organizing secretary, ordered the halt of any convention until the party complies with it’s constitution and guidelines.
It further clarified that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s), obedience to the court judgements and refusal to monitor or validate the illegal convention, is a powerful reinforcement of the fact that the impunity exhibited in the Ibadan assembly,or any decision reached there, cannot stand.
It said while totally condemning the continuous attack on the office of the National Secretary of the party,as legitimately held by it’s leader in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu,Imo PDP, reiterates confidence in Hon Abdulrahman Mohammed as Acting National Chairman and Hon Austin Nwachukwu as it’s State Chairman.
It said ” we stand solidly in support of discipline and constitutional order returning to our party and will continue to pursue and support actions that promote due process,internal democracy and respect for the rule of law,which are the tenets upon which the party was founded”.It stated.
