Imo PDP Disowns Franklyne Edede Over Parrallel NWC
By Austin Echefu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has disowned Mr. Franklyne Maduabuchi Edede, who on wednesday joined the new splinter group of the PDP in Abuja.
In a press release signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Imo, Mr. Damian Opera, the party said that its attention was drawn to what it described as “malicious and misleading reports in some of the national dailies” which reported “that Franklyne Maduabuchi Edede who in connivance with other imposters trying to form a parallel national structure of our party is a member of PDP, Imo state Chapter”.
The Imo State PDP dismissed the report, saying that it was “misleading”.
The also said that the report was” false and unfounded”, adding that it “is nothing but the handiwork and trademark of mischievous individuals in their renewed struggle and efforts to destabilize PDP after a successful National Elective Convention”.
The party said they “have checked the PDP registers in all the wards in Ezinihitte Mbaise, his Local Govt, and discovered that he is not a registered member of PDP neither in his Eziudo Ward, his Local Govt Ezinihitte nor any other part of Imo State”.
“We hereby state categorically that he is not a member of PDP Imo State Chapter”, the PDP added, calling on her “teeming supporters and all the organs of PDP at the national level to disregard the activities of the above named person as he might have been hired to distract our great party”.
The party also reiterated iits “support and unflinching loyalty to the Prince Uche Secondus led National Executive Committee of PDP and reassure them that no amount of distractions will stop us from taking over power in Imo State and Nigeria come 2019”.
