Suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has described the 2026 National Elective Convention of the party which held in Ibadan, Oyo State, over the weekend, as a “jamboree”.
Anyanwu spoke in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television, a few hours after the PDP expelled him and other chieftains of the party.
At the convention, the PDP elected Kabiru Turaki, as former Minister of Special Duties, as their new national chairman,
“16 states had not even done their congresses; the entire South-East has not done their congress, suggesting that all that happened on Saturday was a jamboree. Even the ones done earlier have not been communicated to INEC,” he said on his opinion of the convention.
He added that with the absence of several states from the convention, the event, which ran from Saturday to early Sunday, cannot be said to be all-inclusive.
“When I heard somebody yesterday at the convention, when they were celebrating, having their jamboree, saying that we must obey the rules of the party, I laughed,” he said.
The PDP at the convention also dissolved party structures in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.
A chieftain of the party, Bode George, moved the motion for the expulsion of 11 key members, citing what he described as activities inconsistent with the party’s collective interest as reasons for the move.
The PDP chairman in Bauchi State quickly seconded the motion.
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, put the vote forward for members to adopt and ratify the expulsion of those involved, and it was unanimously accepted.
