PDP NWC voids Wabara’s suspension as party’s BoT chairman

• According to the statement, the purported suspension violated the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017) and did not follow due process

The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reversed the suspension of Adolphus Wabara as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Within Nigeria recalls that the Abia State Working Committee, SWC, of the party had on Tuesday suspended Wabara.

The nullification of Wabara’s suspension was contained in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Tuesday.

According to the statement, the purported suspension violated the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017) and did not follow due process.

Ologunagba described the action as reckless and illegal, after the Abia state chapter of the party suspended Wabara for endorsing Governor Alex Otti for a second tenure barely five months into the governor’s administration in October 2023.

“The attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to the purported suspension of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our great Party, Distinguished Senator Adolphus Wabara from the Party.

“The NWC categorically dismisses the purported suspension as null and void and of no effect whatsoever not being consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017) and laid down Rules of our great Party.

“For emphasis no State Working Committee has the power to suspend or take any disciplinary action against a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Party without due recourse to the NWC as clearly provided under Section 57 (7) of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017),” Ologunagba said.