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PDP suspends Elumelu, others over house leadership

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the suspension of Ndudi Elumelu over the minority leadership tussle at the House of Representatives.

The National Working Committee of the party suspended Elumelu and six other members for alleged insubordination, indiscipline and disobedience.

This was revealed in a statement on Friday evening by the party’s national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

Other lawmakers who were suspended are, Wole Oke, Lynda Ikpeazu, Anayo Edwin, Gideon Gwadi, Toby Okechukwu and Adekoya Abdul-Majid.

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The suspended members were announced by the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, as minority leaders, against the PDP’s choices.

PDP had written a letter to the speaker of the house nominating Kingsley Chinda as Minority Leader, Chukwuka Onyema as Deputy Minority Leader, Yakubu Barde as Minority Whip and Muraina Ajibola as Deputy Minority Whip.

Following the announcement of a different set of lawmakers, two factional minority leaders, Elumelu and China, emerged.

Speaking on the suspension, Ologbondiyan said, “The Party noted the roles played by the underlisted members which resulted in the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, reading another list for Minority Leadership of the House other than the list submitted to him by our party, the PDP.

“After preliminary examination by the NWC, it was evident that the roles played by the above mentioned members, bordered on indiscipline, insubordination and disobedience of party directives contrary to Section 58 (1)(b)(c)(f)(h) of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017), which provides that:

“Subject to the provision of this Constitution, the Party shall have power to discipline any member who says or does anything likely to bring the party into disrepute, hatred or contempt; disobeys or neglects to carry out lawful directives of the party or any organ or officer of the party; engages in anti-party activities; or engages in any conduct likely to cause disaffection among members of the party or is likely to disrupt the peaceful, lawful and efficient conduct of the business of the party.

“Consequent upon this, the above mentioned members of our party are hereby suspended for one month and this matter is hereby referred to the National Disciplinary Committee of our party, in keeping with Section 57(3) of the PDP Constitution.”

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