A South East Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Chukwudi Apugo, has said the Party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Adolphus Wabara, should be held liable for the fracas which marred the 78th meeting of the board in Abuja.
In a chat in Abuja yesterday, Apugo alleged that the BoT Chairman’s decision to invite the second claimant for the position of National Secretary, Hon. Sunday Udo-Okoye, to the meeting set the stage for the confusion that followed Wednesday’s meeting.
Apugo, a two-term member of the Abia State House of Assembly, wondered why the BoT Chairman invited Ude Okoye into the meeting when the party’s National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, was already seated and discharging the functions of his office.
He said, “If Wabara did not have a sinister motive, at what stage did it occur to him to invite Sunday Ude-Okoye, who is not a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, to the meeting?”
According to Apugo, the BoT secretariat prepared a list of persons expected to attend the meeting, and to the best of his knowledge, this list didn’t include Ude-Okoye’s name.
Later, another list signed by Wabara containing Ude-Okoye’s name was forwarded to the gate for security clearance.
Apugo further explained that “In the amended list Wabara forwarded, Senator Samuel Anyanwu’s name was listed as number 46 with National Secretary as his designation, and on the same list Sunday Ude-Okoye’s name appeared number 47 with the same designation as National Secretary.” Only Anyanwu was listed as
Secretary in the original list prepared by the secretariat.
“Senator Wabara’s action amounts to contempt of Court because the Court of Appeal has granted Senator’s motion for a stay of execution while pursuing his Appeal against the earlier judgments Ude-Okoye is relying on, and Wabara is well aware of these facts.
“Since the Court of Appeal presided over by its President issued a directive, it is incumbent on all law-abiding citizens to respect that order of the court.”
