Why we reject Suswam as chairman electoral committee – PDP professionals

A group within the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP), PDP Professionals for the Defence of Integrity and Equity has in an open letter to the Chairman, PDP Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi rejected the appointment of former governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam as the Chairman Electoral Panel Committee at the December 9, 2017 National Convention of the party.

In the letter issued Sunday, copies of which were made available to journalists and signed by its chairman, Barrister Tichus Zungeru, the group said it “observed with dismay and total disgust the purported appointment of Gabriel Suswan , a former Governor of Benue State as the Chairman of the very crucial electoral panel committee at our upcoming National Convention.

“Mr Suswam surely does not represent a symbol of unbiased purity, the very image of sanitising wholesomeness without which we cannot have a clean, equitable, unsoiled election.

“For one Mr Suswam is a known ally and sworn friend of Mr Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State who does not hide his brazen sponsorship of Uche Secondus for the National Chairmanship position of our party.

“With such an obviously compromised scenario, we do not need a soothsayer to tell us how Mr Suswan will behave as Chairman of such a very important Committee. Naturally he will be working for Secondus right from the inception.

“Mr Suswam’s appointment is therefore unacceptable to us. It is very flawed, erroneous, deliberately designed to arrive at a predetermined solution”.

The group further said that “Suswam is still very much tainted with various EFCC cases as he battled with issues of personal integrity”, saying “surely, he is hardly the right person for such a very sensitive job with all his obvious baggage of dishonor trailing him everywhere. We therefore demand that National Caretaker Committee should strike of his name immediately”.

Innocent Kumba, Markurdi