Northern Group Backs Secondus For PDP Chair

A group in the North, the Northern Integrity Watch, has backed Uche Secondus for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Secondus, a former acting National Chairman of the party, is vying for the position alongside six other aspirants.

Delegates of Nigeria’s major opposition party would converge on Eagle Square, Abuja, on 9 December, to election the party’s next supreme leader.

And ahead of the convention, the group said as an experience party man, Secondus has what it takes to move the party to the next level.

It added that his role as the former PDP Deputy National Chairman showed that he is a party builder.

The group’s statement read in part: “At this time of the life of PDP, the party needs a man with experience, the man who can take the party to the next level, Secondus has this experience.

“His role as the Deputy National Chairman portray him as the man that has the knowledge and the understanding of the workings of the party and he knows how to put round pegs in round holes.

“As a bridge builder, he knows people across the six geopolitical zones and he commands respect among the party members across the zones.

“If PDP is the hands of a man who can reach members across the zones, it means that the party would not only grow but will be stronger in all ramifications.

“The chances of PDP winning 2019 is obvious especially when the party is in the hands of a man who has the capacity to face the opposition and tell them the truth even in the face of intimidation. Secondus is endowed with all these qualities.”