SUSPENSION OF SENATOR ADOLPHUS WABARA FROM THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY DUE TO ANTI – PARTY CONDUCT
Date: 11/02/2025
From: The State Working Committee/ State Executive Committee , PDP Abia State Chapter
To: All Party members, Stakeholders and the General PublicAs Officials of People’s Democratic Party (Abia State Chapter) and members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) of the Party, who jointly and severally swore to protect and defend the Party’s Constitution (2017 as amended) we invite the attention of PDP members, Stakeholders and the General Public to the anti-party activities of the BOT Chairman of PDP, Senator Adolphus Wabara and the Constitutional and resolution of the State Working Committee/State Executive Committee, to invoke the relevant provisions of the PDP Constitution (2017 as amended)for the purposes of suspending from the party, Senator Adolphus Wabara, in line with the Disciplinary procedures and guidelines and hereby unanimously resolved to State as follows:
1. WHEREAS our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to Senator Adolphus Wabara the BOT Chairman of PDP, sometime in October, and circulated on Social media and National Dailies, wherein the said Senator threw caution to the wind and in a brazen display of sabotage to the Party, unilaterally endorsed the labour Party governor of Abia State Gov. Alex Chioma Otti, for a second term in office, barely Five (5) months after inauguration and thereby brought the party to disrepute, hatred and/contempt, which is in violation to the provisions of Chapter 10, Article 58(c) and (f) of the Constitution of Party (2017 as amended) and therefore liable to punishment under Article 59(1) of the Party’s Constitution
2. WHEREAS Article 58(1) and Article 59(1) of the PDP Constitution (2017 as amended) empowers the State Executive Committee (SEC) to discipline any member of the Party, who commits any offence(s) provided by the Party’s Constitution, irrespective of the members status
3. WHEREAS Article 24(1)(v) of the same Constitution confers membership of the State Executive Committee (SEC) on the said BOT Chairman, as a former Principal Officer of the National Assembly, the said Senator being a former Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which he became under the platform of the Party
4. WHEREAS the unappealed federal High Court Judgement sitting in Ebonyi State, in Suit No. FHC/A1/CS/182/2024 Hon. OVUTA HERBERT ONYEDIKACHI & 2 ORS AND Chief ALI ODEFA & 2 ORS delivered on 29/11/2024, had declared unconstitutional and a breach of the principles of natural justice, equity and good conscience, the purported provision of Articles 57(7) and 59(3) of the PDP Constitution (2017 as amended, which hitherto purportedly clothed the Senator with some molecule of immunity, from being sanctioned on disciplinary grounds by the State Executive Committee
5. WHEREAS the said Senator Adolphus Wabara has refused, failed and neglected to refute the said statement credited to him and circulated on Social media and National Dailies, since October 2023, despite repeated outcries, demands and Notices to show cause why disciplinary sanctions should not be meted on him
6. WHEREAS the actions and or inactions of Senator Adolphus Wabara have undermined the credibility of the PDP, demoralized party members /Stakeholders and emboldened the opposition and gravely constitute gross anti party activity/conduct
7. WHEREAS the need to ensure discipline amongst party members across board, irrespective of status cannot be over emphasized
NOW THEREFORE, let it be known by all party members, Stakeholders and the General Public, that sequel to the foregoing and consequent upon the far reaching implications of Senator Adolphus Wabara’s acts of sabotage against the party, the SEC hereby invokes the provisions of Articles 57(1),(2),(3), 58(1)(b) & (f) and 59(1) of the party’s Constitution (2017 as amended) against Senator Adolphus Wabara and hereby places him on ONE (1) SUSPENSION from party activities.
Furthermore, in compliance with the provisions of Articles 59(1) (e) & (f) of the party’s Constitution (2017 as amended) Senator Adolphus Wabara henceforth is debared from holding any party office and therefore equally removed from office as BOT Chairman of PDP.
Signed
Elder Abraham Amah
Chairman
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