PDP CRISIS IN LAGOS STATE WORSEN…..AS AGGRIEVED LEADERS INSIST ‘NO PEACE YET’

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ), Lagos State

Chapter, has taken another dimension as 35 members out of 49

petitioned the National Working Committee  (NWC) again seeking the

removal of the earlier suspended State Chairman, Capt  Olatunji

Shelle.

It will be recalled that majority of the excos had on the 11th day of

May, 2015 passed a vote of no confidence on the Chairman over

misappropriation of party funds and high handedness in the management

of the party’s affairs amongst others.

However, the NWC reverted the supposed suspension on  Capt Shelle on

the basis that only the NWC has the prerogative to remove or

discipline the Chairman but however directed that the aggrieved excos

direct their complaints to the National Executive Committee through

the National Working Committee which was done and sent on the 31st of

August, 2015.

Evidence of the rancour within the executive was manifest as majority

of the executives boycotted  the illegal excos meeting called by Capt

Shelle.

Reacting to this development, Hon Wahab Owokoniran, revealed to the

press that the meeting the Chairman summoned was unconstitutional and

illegal since he was not privy to it and he added that  the vote of

confidence claimed to have been passed was by less than 14 members of

the excos out of 49.

His statements read in parts:  we are calling on the NWC of our great

party to call Captain Shelle to order and discourage him from

promoting illegalities.“Nothing can be achieved when majority of the party members and excos

 are aggrieved and we are urging the public to disregard his posture as

the Chairman noting that until the NWC takes a decision and intervene,

it is a graveyard peace.