Suswam blames judiciary for festering PDP National Secretary tussle

…says NEC will resolve issue

By Tunde Opalana

Former Benue State Governor, Senator Gabriel Suswam has blamed the judiciary for muddling issues relating to scrambling for the seat of the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He said the courts have caused the party more confusion in interpretation declarations of courts of different jurisdictions on the political struggle for the national scribe position.

Suswam who said this on Tuesday while featuring on Arise TV morning show though decried the current leadership crisis within the PDP, but blamed the judiciary for aggravating the party’s situation.

Criticising the judiciary for failing to provide clarity on the matter, Suswam bemoaned that after the Court of Appeal had earlier declared Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the valid Secretary, but the Supreme Court failed to give a definitive ruling.

The apex court rather referred the matter back as an internal party affair.

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“We expected the Supreme Court to have been very expert, that is the last court in the land. If there’s confusion and the people move to court, and you throw the thing back to them, that’s a problem”

“We expected that the Supreme Court would have been more definite than they were. Because they were not, there’s more confusion,” he said.

Suswam exudes confidence that the matter would ultimately be settled by the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) expected to be held in the nearest future.

The former governor, however, called for attitudinal change among party leaders if the PDP is going to be repositioned as a healthy strong and reliable party that can go into the 2027 general election to rescue power from the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC).

He lamented poor internal governance and a loss of public confidence in the party.

Suswam said “this is a party that has structure all over the country. Because of lack of good leadership, that has diminished substantially.”