Why we dissolved Akwa Ibom executives — PDP

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Debo Ologunagba, has disclosed why the party dissolved its executives in Akwa Ibom State.

Appearing on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television on Thursday, Ologunagba explained that the PDP executives were being controlled by the governor who has exited the party.

“In Akwa Ibom State, the governor has left. We have noticed at the National Working Committee and party level that there seems not to be a difference between the members of the executives in that state and their alignment with the All Progressives Congress, APC.

“Section 10, Subsection 6 of this Constitution says, ‘No member of the party shall align with other parties or groups to undermine the party or any of its selected government. It is an anathema that you will belong to two parties at the same time.

“We believe the Akwa Ibom executives are being controlled by the governor who has gone to the APC. The governor said on tape that he will be in charge of the two parties,” he said.

Akwa Ibom had been under the control of the PDP since the return of democratic rule in the country in 1999.

The party, however, lost its control following the defection of the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno, on June 6.

Four months after the governor Eno’s defection, the party decided to dissolve its executives in Akwa Ibom State.