Caretaker Committee members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State have lambasted the alleged high-handedness with which its Chairman, Mr Steve Oruruo was handling the affairs of the party, stressing the PDP was heading towards eventual implosion if the trend continues.
This was as the CTC members expressed the displeasure over what they described as the alleged meddlesomeness of the chairman, saying it was as a consequence they disowned the outcome of the Enugu meeting he super-intended on Sunday and disassociated themselves from such.
In a statement signed by the Caretaker Secretary in the state, Barr Pascal Ukwuani on behalf of other members, a copy of which was made available to Akelecious.Net, on Monday, the party stalwarts claimed the man at the helm of its affairs in Ebonyi State was not capable of repositioning the party ahead of congress.
The statement read, “The attention of the Caretaker Working Committee of the Ebonyi PDP has been drawn to a claim by the caretaker chairman of PDP in Ebonyi state, Barr Steve Oruruo as having united the factions in the PDP in Ebonyi state on Sunday.
“The caretaker committee wants to make it categorically clear that the claim is misleading as it’s false. The meeting of the Ebonyi PDP held in Enugu on the 14th of July, 2024 premise upon which Oruruo is claiming to have united the different interests in the party didn’t achieve any result as members in attendance staged a walkout, leaving behind only Oruruo, Ali Odefa and their security guards in the hall.
“For the records, the meeting which took place in Enugu by 2 pm ended in a fiasco as usual since the inauguration of Oruruo as chairman. Of the thirteen total number of the caretaker committee members, nine walked out on the meeting to communicate their displeasure over the manner the chairman was handling the issues bothering settlement of the crisis ravaging the party, part of which he, the chairman engineered within the few days he has assumed office as chairman of the party. Yes, there was a meeting, but it ended worse than the reason it was convened. ..”
It added, “It’s important at this point to let the National Working Committee and the entire public know that Steve Oruruo is using propaganda to communicate the affairs of our party in Ebonyi to the public. In clear terms, nothing reasonable was discussed and arrived at in the meeting held yesterday as the chairman and Ali Odefa besieged the venue with over 70 police officers and DSS, denying the Secretary and the other nine members the opportunities to contribute to discussions about the repositioning of the party.
“This denial was the last straw that broke the camel’s back, leading to the abrupt dismissal of the meeting. We’re surprised reading from media platforms hours after where the chairman, Oruruo claimed to have settled the scores within the party during the meeting.
“As members of the caretaker committee dedicated to seeing the repositioning of the party, we’re disappointed in the ways and manner a supposed chairman goes on with the business of ensuring that the party is brought back to stability in the state, using propaganda to communicate the business of the party instead of undertaking the true task of reconciling the aggrieved members which is what he was brought in to pursue.
“So far so good, Steve Oruruo has successfully exacerbated the woes of the party and he’s expedient in injuring the party more. He’s ruling the party in the style of sole administration where he acts as chairman, secretary, publicity secretary and more, not allowing anyone else to participate in the process of communication to find the root cause of the discord that befell the party.
“If the national leadership of the party fails to wade into the menacing Oruruo factor in the Ebonyi PDP, it’ll not be in doubt that our party in Ebonyi is headed towards absolute precipice. He should be reminded that propaganda isn’t germane when trying to pursue reconciliation assuming he’s even attempting to reconcile anybody as he has claimed.”
