‘No PDP Congress held in Ebonyi -Ex-PDP chair, Onu insist

By Uchenna Okeh

The former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi state, Silas Onu on Monday said that there was no Congress held in the state last Saturday at the party secretariat, located along Abakaliki-Enugu expressway.

He however called on the general public to disregard the falsehoods making the rounds in the state that PDP purportedly held state Congress, insisting that what happened was just a gathering of friends, not a state Congress.

Onu who made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abakaliki, blamed the organizer (s) of the purported PDP state Congress of attempting to raise dust that is an affront to a valid court order, who according to him, had barred the organizers from carrying out such activities.

According to him: “There is no faction in the PDP. There was only an attempt by a greedy individual who thought that the political party belonged 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 a 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 cases.

“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 purports to do, is simply wasting his or her time. 

“No Congress was 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 that is, but it will appear that he wants to retire the money that was given to him.

“This person is supposed to be a national officer of the Party, although he has been suspended. What he did was targeted to raise dust, but it’s an effort in futility and will hold no water” he stated.