{"id":40492,"date":"2023-06-22T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=40492"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:27:05","slug":"exit-of-seven-pdp-officials-did-not-affect-our-party-says-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=40492","title":{"rendered":"Exit Of Seven PDP\u00a0Officials Did Not Affect Our Party \u2013 Says Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">The members\u00a0 and Executives\u00a0 of Imo\u00a0 state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u00a0 has stated that the resignation of 7 state working committee members\u00a0 SWC\u00a0 does not affect the party in any way , while calling for\u00a0 proper rendering of financial\u00a0 account .<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Speaking on behalf of Imo\u00a0PDP at the State\u00a0party secretariat along Okigwe road Owerri during a world press conference, the financial secretary of the party Barr. Bede Ojimadu\u00a0 hinted that the party structure is still intact and functional\u00a0 , he added that their exit\u00a0 is not a cause for concern , he reminded Imo citizens that\u00a0 sometime in 2019 serving executive members\u00a0 led by Barr. Babatunde Ezekwem also left , he also cited the exit of the former publicity secretary ,<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0 he reiterated that the point of concern is the manner in which it has happened and men before the scene , Barr. Ojimadu pointed out that\u00a0 some of the members that resigned were neck deep in the last general elections\u00a0 and might have left to avoid the wrath of the law , due to issues of accountability , involvement in anti party activities\u00a0 which according to him has been on the front burner , and other matters relating to embezzlement of funds , he stressed on the need for the National working committee to revisit the issue of embezzlement of fund earlier petitioned , he added that those indicted will face the law . Continuing Barr Ojimadu highlighted that &#8221; in my 3 years on assumption of office, my office don&#8217;t know about any expenses , at a time we set up a committee\u00a0 which I am supposed to be the secretary\u00a0 , I was not carried along\u00a0 , I don&#8217;t even know the account number , I only want the officers that left to come and account&#8221; he said .<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">On the alleged attack on the party Secretariat , Barr. Ojimadu said \u201caccording to preliminary reports\u00a0 the attackers were said to be members of a Youth Alliance group that arrived when the National secretary has left , their coming coincided with that if the Youth leader whose absence was unexplained during the emergency meeting convened\u00a0 due to the matter on ground&#8221;. He made mention of the principal officers who faulted the party\u00a0 for giving Governorship ticket\u00a0 to a National Executive\u00a0 , he added that it is constitutional for a serving executive to contest for Governorship position and can only resign if he has assume office , he reiterated that Senator Samuel Anyanwu has not yet assume office , he stated the constitution , thus &#8221; Section 45 subsection 1 of PDP constitution , any member holding any position shall be deemed to have resigned if he\/she assumes office. Barr. Ojimadu revealed\u00a0 that the party &#8216;s national Secretary and Governorship candidate has spent millions of Naira on funding of\u00a0 the party in Imo state on staff salaries , rentage with verifiable evidences .<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">In their respective speeches, co- ordinating PDP chairman in the 27 LGA\u00a0on behalf of the Chairmen\u00a0 and Hon . Chikere Njaka representing the youths , passed a vote of confidence on Senator Samuel Anyanwu , reiterating that they are not moved by the defection of the 7 SWC members adding that resigned members were\u00a0 \u00a0involved in mismanagement of the Party&#8217;s resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Also present at the press conference, Okigwe zone leader Hon. Chidi Dike, Barrister Uche\u00a0 Igbokwe , Youth leaders of the party , SWC , Coordinators of Party Candidates in the last general elections and host of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4440059980gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members\u00a0 and Executives\u00a0 of Imo\u00a0 state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u00a0 has stated that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3-300x166.jpg",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",640,354,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",300,166,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PDP-2-3.jpg",50,28,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40493,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions\/40493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}