PDP STAFF TO DRAG PDP NWC TO EFCC

The financial crisis bedevilling the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assumed a new dimension Friday when the staff of the national secretariat of the party urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-graft agencies to quiz members of the party's National Working Committee for embezzlement of over N13 billion.

The party's NWC had on Thursday issued a circular in which it literally sacked all the staff of the party in a reorganisation of the secretariat, asking "the few retained" to obtain letters of confirmation of loyalty to the party from their respective state party chairmen.

However, the angry workers apart from making allegations of sleaze against the NWC members, asked for the immediate resignation of the current PDP-NWC led by Prince Uche Secondus, insisting they have lost all moral right to remain in office and that they allegedly were dragging the PDP to extinction.

But, national secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo and national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh has dismissed the allegations as baseless and nonesense, saying such were not unexpected.

Oladipo and Metuh at separate telephone interviews,  wondered why it took the staff so long to come up with their allegations, adding that it was curious it came at a time they were asking for the removal of the Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS) and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as well as putting the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on its toes.

According to Chief Metuh, "they are free to make allegations. We have asked them to bring letters from their state chairmen to prove they are loyal to the party. All these ones and diversionary and we are not bothered".