A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, Moses Idika, has faulted the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on his position regarding the suspension of the PDP National Vice Chairman, South-East, Ali Odefa.
Odefa was initially suspended from the party on September 4, 2024, by his ward, before the suspension was upheld by the Federal High Court, Abakaliki.
Idika in a statement on Thursday, asserted that the judgement delivered on November 29, 2024, by Justice Hilary Oshomah, was explicit and self-explanatory in respect of the status of Odefa as a PDP member in Ebonyi State.
He said that following the suspension of Odefa, leaders of the PDP in the state unanimously replaced him with Chidiebere Egwu, to serve out the remaining tenure of Odefa as national vice chairman of the party in the South East.
Idika added, “It is a contemptuous jaywalking on the part of Mr. Ologunagba to want to use his access to PDP official Facebook page to mislead the Nigerian public.
“Although, we are not surprised that Mr. Ologunagba has resorted to facebooking as the national publicity secretary of the party- he knows no better.
“As the spokesman of Nigeria’s main opposition political party, Mr. Ologunagba holds the undisputed prize as the laziest, most ineffective and unsuited for that exalted position that should ordinarily be the mouthpiece of the oppressed and misgoverned people of Nigeria. Ologunagba has never been seen confronting issues bedeviling the party or Nigerians.
“Mr. Ologunagba’s duckling approach to the management of the image of our great party, the PDP is nothing but disastrous in the last few years and we are only grateful that his tenure is ending soon.
“It is therefore, important that the general public discountenances the purported press statement as we are aware that the exalted national working committee of the PDP has not met yet to deliberate the lawful replacement of the expelled erstwhile national vice chairman of the PDP in the South East zone.
“For the avoidance of doubt, these are legal and constitutional matters that a Facebook post of an officer of the PDP cannot and will never vitiate.
“Patriotic and committed members of the PDP in Ebonyi are aware that a Facebook post by an officer of the party in Abuja, has no strength whatsoever to upturn the lawful decision of the good people of Ebonyi State. And the decisions of members of the PDP in Ebonyi State stand and the Egyptians we saw before have gone the way of their ilk.”
