A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and former chairman of the party in Ebonyi state, Barr. Silas Onu has called on the general public to disregard any purported PDP Congress organized and held in the state last Saturday at the party secretariat.
Onu in an interview with journalists in Abakaliki said that no Congress was organized in the State insisting that what happened over the weekend was a gathering of some political friends and not a State Congress.
Onu who declared the purported Congress as illegal said that the organizers has violated a valid court order that had earlier barred them from carrying out such activities.
According to him: "There is no faction in PDP. There was only an attempt by a greedy individual who think that the political party belong to him to hijack it, because he was mistakenly sent to go and represent Ebonyi in the national working committee, NWC, and all of a sudden it becomes a problem to everybody in the party.
"You don't do a Congress when there is court order, saying don't do any. Not one, not two. There are many cases in court and the court said, don't do anything until I finish hearing these case.
"Anybody who goes about saying he did a Congress, is doing so as a direct affront to a valid court order, and whatever the person purport to do, is simply wasting his or her time.
"No Congress held in Ebonyi, it was just a gathering of friends. We hear a rumour that he was given money to do that and destabilize PDP in Ebonyi. We don't know how true is that, but it will appear that he wants to retire the money that was given to him.
"This person supposed to be a national officer of the Party, although he has been suspended. What he did, was targeted to rise dust, but it's an effort in futility and will hold no water" he stated.
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