By Udora Orizu
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, (CNPP) and ethnic youth leaders have chided the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its call for the resignation of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele from office.
The Secretary General of the CNPP, Chief Willie Ezeugwu, in a statement on Thursday disassociated itself from the call.
The parties said that the CBN Governor had not done anything to warrant the call for his resignation hence PDP does not enjoy the support of other opposition political parties.
The parties said PDP should be more concerned that its top and leading members are resigning in large numbers due to the unattractive nature of the party on the watch of the current National Working Committee of the Party.
The statement reads, “PDP is rather chasing shadows when its house is consumed by an inferno. The Nigerian opposition parties are currently supposed to be undergoing internal healing and rebuilding so as to be well positioned to take over power in 2023 but the activities of the Uche Secondus led PDP has reduced the politics of opposition to child’s play and possibly being for hire to operators of BDC’s who are fighting the Governor of CBN for the policy to stop sale of Forex to the BDC’s.
“PDP has become a shadow of itself and fast turning into a briefcase political party if the likes of Uche Secondus and Mr. Kola Ologbodion are left in the strategic offices they presently occupy in the party. They should be shown the way out and not join hirelings to make misguided calls the basis of which are laughable, baseless and cannot be substantiated.”
On its part, the Nigerian Ethnic Youth Leaders Council (NEYLC), which is made up of the Arewa Consultative Youth Movement, Ohanaeze ndi Igbo Youth Movement, Oduduwa Youths and Middle Belt Youths, is of the strong view that the call is baseless considering the monumental strides of the apex bank under Emefiele’s leadership.
The council in a statement by Ohanaeze Secretary General and Head of Coalition Secretariat, Nwada Chiamaka said the call had exposed outgoing National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus; and the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, as not being in tune with the reality of the nation’s politics.
The statement reads, “The call is laughable and a sign of a weak National Working Committee (NWC) of an opposition party which is ready to play politics with everything, no matter how unreasonable. We pity Ologbondiyan and Secondus because they are like the proverbial drowning men that are desperately looking for a straw to hold on it. This is what the fear of their impending sack has turned them into: supposed opposition leaders blinded by ambition to remain in office by all means. We really dismayed at the level that which ambition can push people to.”
