The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared the suspension of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, by the Abia State chapter as invalid.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said the NWC had taken note of the situation and dismissed the suspension as “null, void, and of no effect whatsoever.”
The statement clarified that the NWC had been made aware of the Abia State chapter’s decision and rejected it outright, stating that it did not align with the party’s constitution. The NWC pointed to the PDP’s 2017 amended constitution, which outlines specific rules regarding disciplinary actions within the party.
According to the statement: “The attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to the purported suspension of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our great Party, Distinguished Senator Adolphus Wabara from the Party.
“The NWC categorically dismisses the purported suspension as null and void and of no effect whatsoever, not being consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017) and laid down rules of our great Party.
“No State Working Committee has the power to suspend or take any disciplinary action against a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Party without due recourse to the NWC, as clearly provided under Section 57 (7) of the Constitution of the PDP.”
The section referenced states that “no Executive Committee at any level, except the National Executive Committee, shall entertain any question of discipline as may relate or concern a member of the National Executive Committee, Deputy Governors, or members of the National Assembly.”
