By Kenneth Onuoha
The caretaker committee chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Fred Udeogu, has disclosed that PDP would appeal the court judgment restraining its National Working Committee (NWC), from dissolving the executive of the party in Ebonyi state, led by Barr. Onyekachi Nwebonyi.
Nwebonyi-led executive was recently dissolved by the NWC, shortly after Governor David Umahi defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
But the affected chairman, Nwebonyi had upon the dissolution, dragged the PDP to court in Abakaliki, praying the court to restrain its national body from dissolving the Ebonyi exco, which was granted by the court.
Speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, weekend, Udeogu said all arrangements have been made to appeal the judgment, adding that Nwebonyi was occupying the party’s state secretariat illegally.
According to him, “Our plan is to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the presidency, states and in all the wards. We want to take over this country, because what we are seeing is not what we were promised.
“Ebonyi is naturally and traditionally a PDP state. We are already working on how our supporters will continue to stand for progress. They are only using unfounded propaganda against our brothers because they control the state radio and TV.
“They have been feeding people of the state with all manners of lies, but we are preparing. Political fight is not a fight with a gun or knife but with intelligence and wisdom.
“We have done it before and we will continue to do it. The present government led by David Umahi, knew that I and other stakeholders threw our weights behind him. He knew how we unseated the former government and installed him as the governor.
“Once you start telling people lies, you are no more part of that person. This government has fed our people with terrible lies. And our people are terribly suffering. No employment; nothing is happening in the state. You see people engaging in unusual trade just to survive, but the state allocation is bigger than what we used to get before.
“We know that there will be battle, but the problem they have is that they don’t know us. It is a matter of the more you look, the less you see.
“We are loyal people of this country. We accepted the court judgment. It is good and I don’t want to talk much on the matter that is still in court. By next week, we will be on appeal.
“All I know is that it is a useless and baseless matter. We know that they will go to court. We know all they will do, but we will not attack them.
“We are not going to kill and nobody will kill us. But if anybody tries what is funny against our people, some people will now know that nobody has monopoly or control over the state, but we are all subject to the constitution of this country.
“PDP has the certificate of occupancy (C of O) of the secretariat. That land was acquired by PDP. The house was built by PDP.
“Lucky enough, I was in government then, nobody can claim that the secretariat is his. And when it is time, we will take over the secretariat. We are not struggling over the house. What they are trying to do is to distract us. They know that they are staying there illegally. It doesn’t stop us from working.”