The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ebonyi State chapter Monday suspended its Chairman Barrister Silas Onu for gross misconduct and brigandry.
Onu was suspended by a faction of Obiozara ward executives of the party, while another faction of the executive dismissed it.
Suspension of Onu tilted towards another dimension of crisis rocking the party in the state since a federal high court sitting in Abuja sacked Tochukwu Okorie as the party Chairman.
Onu while challenging the election of Okorie at the court, cited irregularities in the process that led to the congress of the party that produced Onu as Chairman.
A letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party, signed by Hon. Akpa Azi Chairman of a faction of the party in the ward and It’s Secretary Hon.Timothy Nwogo, reads, “We, the undersigned on behalf of the entire Executives of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Obiozara Ward, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebony State have noted with total dismay the gross misconduct and brigandage of the Chairman of our great Party in Ebony State, Barr. Silas Onu on 3rd and 4th day of May 2022 respectively which marred the lawful and peaceful ad-hoc conduct of the Ward Congress across Ebonyi State for the election of 3-man Delegates for the forthcoming Primary Election of our Party in Ebonyi State”.
In a counter-statement/letter signed by another faction of PDP in the Obiozara Ward signed by its own Chairman and Secretary, Igwe Ubadinma and Samuel Idenyi Anthony dated 14th May 2022, the faction alleged that the suspension letter addressed to the National Leadership of PDP was forged by those they called Abuja based desperate politicians from the state.
The counter-statement/letter which was tagged notice to all courts in Nigeria reads in part ”the entire ward is hereby put on notice of this fact, and all authorities are called on to disregard any attempt to use such fake documents.
“The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court is hereby put on notice and all the Chief Judges of the 36 States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the FCT. The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party is also put on notice.