The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party has denied complicity in the last month's resignation of the party's former chairman, Okwesilieze Nwodo.
It, however, refused to state clearly if the former chairman left N7 billion in the coffers of the party when he was leaving office, as claimed.
Mr Nwodo's political adviser, Buhari Bala had in a recent media interview accused the Working Committee members of complicity in the resignation of his principal last month. He also claimed that Mr Nwodo left N7 billion in the party's account at the time he resigned.
The NWC, in a statement by PDP national publicity secretary, Ahmed Alkali on Sunday in Abuja, said that Mr Bala's comment was jaundiced, ill-timed, uninformed and in bad taste. "When we first heard of the story, we could not believe that an aide to a former chairman of our party could make such allegations. We therefore waited, thought that he must have been quoted out of context. But having waited up to this time without him retracting the statement, we have reasons to believe that the action was deliberately taken," Mr Alkali said.
"It is not the tradition of the leadership to join issues with our past leaders or those who worked with them. There is however need for us to make some clarifications in this case in order to put the record straight and avoid a situation where party members and especially Nigerians will be led to believe a lie." he said.
Intentional attack
The PDP spokesman said the committee finds it strange that Mr Bala could choose this period when the party had just concluded its presidential campaign at the zonal level and about to commence the door to door campaigns in the states, "to throw spanner on our collective efforts and determination to achieve success for our party in the forthcoming general elections." Stating that the committee will not go into the details of the circumstances that led to the resignation of Mr Nwodo, Mr Alkali, however, recalled that the former chairman himself said he was quitting based on the need to "maintain cohesion in the overall interest of the party." He added, "For an aide to the former chairman to turn around and make unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations against the NWC of the party speak of mischief and indeed a deliberate attempt to create bad blood, hatred and odium between members of the NWC and the former national chairman whom we hold in high esteem. "We want to put it on record that since June 2010 when Okwesilieze Nwodo was elected the national chairman of the PDP, he enjoyed the highest level of cooperation from members of the National Working Committee who supported every single programme that he introduced.
Mr Alkali dismissed Mr Bala's claim that Mr Nwodo left N7 billion in the PDP's purse, saying that he (Bala) was never in a position to know the state of the party's finances and therefore not qualified to speak on the matter.
The PDP spokesman asked Mr Bala to give clarification on the allegations he raised, adding that this will determine the committee's next line of action.
Source:234next
It, however, refused to state clearly if the former chairman left N7 billion in the coffers of the party when he was leaving office, as claimed.
Mr Nwodo's political adviser, Buhari Bala had in a recent media interview accused the Working Committee members of complicity in the resignation of his principal last month. He also claimed that Mr Nwodo left N7 billion in the party's account at the time he resigned.
The NWC, in a statement by PDP national publicity secretary, Ahmed Alkali on Sunday in Abuja, said that Mr Bala's comment was jaundiced, ill-timed, uninformed and in bad taste. "When we first heard of the story, we could not believe that an aide to a former chairman of our party could make such allegations. We therefore waited, thought that he must have been quoted out of context. But having waited up to this time without him retracting the statement, we have reasons to believe that the action was deliberately taken," Mr Alkali said.
"It is not the tradition of the leadership to join issues with our past leaders or those who worked with them. There is however need for us to make some clarifications in this case in order to put the record straight and avoid a situation where party members and especially Nigerians will be led to believe a lie." he said.
Intentional attack
The PDP spokesman said the committee finds it strange that Mr Bala could choose this period when the party had just concluded its presidential campaign at the zonal level and about to commence the door to door campaigns in the states, "to throw spanner on our collective efforts and determination to achieve success for our party in the forthcoming general elections." Stating that the committee will not go into the details of the circumstances that led to the resignation of Mr Nwodo, Mr Alkali, however, recalled that the former chairman himself said he was quitting based on the need to "maintain cohesion in the overall interest of the party." He added, "For an aide to the former chairman to turn around and make unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations against the NWC of the party speak of mischief and indeed a deliberate attempt to create bad blood, hatred and odium between members of the NWC and the former national chairman whom we hold in high esteem. "We want to put it on record that since June 2010 when Okwesilieze Nwodo was elected the national chairman of the PDP, he enjoyed the highest level of cooperation from members of the National Working Committee who supported every single programme that he introduced.
Mr Alkali dismissed Mr Bala's claim that Mr Nwodo left N7 billion in the PDP's purse, saying that he (Bala) was never in a position to know the state of the party's finances and therefore not qualified to speak on the matter.
The PDP spokesman asked Mr Bala to give clarification on the allegations he raised, adding that this will determine the committee's next line of action.
Source:234next
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