Secondus to Image Makers: Leave Me Out of Your Mess

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The immediate past national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has asked hired image launders within the party to leave him out of the present ‘mess’ within the party.

Secondus, however, asked curiously where the image launders of Governor Nyesom Wikewere, when he was state chairman of the party in Rivers State, National Organising Secretary and deputy national chairman of PDP

In a statement by his media aide, Ike Abonye, the former National Chairman said the image launders, having seen where their inundate ambition and impunity brought the party, some faceless hirelings have been making spirited efforts to spin out good from a messy situation.

“Our reaction would not have been necessary if they had not embarked on needless name calling of Prince Secondus and attempt to label him wrongly by not only ignoring his envious achievements in the party but deliberately trying to discredit him,” the statement stated.

Secondus said the two latest articles were, “One political personality that can influence Anyim’s Presidential Ambition and two, political moves that may have cost Secondus PDP national championship seat.”

The statement said from the content of the two articles, it was clear that the new godfather of PDP was drumming the melody to give meaning to his new role of deciding, who is to be what in PDP henceforth and indirectly drawing template for the incoming national leadership of the party.

“Somebody was deliberately trying to hide the truth by failing to capture the correct position of things in the PDP, because there were lots of fallacies in the write-ups. The story could not connect with the reality on ground, where a hitherto peaceful and vibrant party was suddenly thrown into turmoil by the same ambitious godfather, whose aspiration is to hijack the party for himself.

“The faceless writers claimed that the three state governors of Ebonyi, Cross River and Zamfara States left the PDP, because it was being mismanaged. But in being economical with the truth, the writers failed to capture the man whose overbearing role caused their exit. The writer pretended not to know that it was the meddlesome interloping role of a particular governor that actually forced Governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and Prof Ben Ayade of Cross River State out of the party.

“The altercation between this governor and Umahi was everywhere in the news for the writer to have known. Ditto his principal role in the crisis in Cross River State PDP that culminated in the exit of the Governor. Even in Zamfara State, Governor Bello Matawelle, still fingered this very governor’s careless utterances as his reason for feeling not wanted in PDP and his eventual leaving,” he said.