Prince Kassim Afegbua’s N10 billion mismanagement allegation against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus has been rubbished by Kola Olosgondiyan, National Publicity Secretary PDP.
Ologbondiyan said; “Afegbua is a clown who is fishing in the ocean of rumour. The sum of N4.6 billion was presented to the National Working Committee, NWC and also presented to all other organs of the party and to the final authority on expenditure which is the National Executive Committee, NEC, for approval and this was given to the NWC.”
“So we don’t know where Afegbua is coming from on the allegation of N10 billion. We are waiting as a party for the facts that he has and for the documents that he will present to back up his allegations.”
“At the national secretariat, we believe the membership of Afegbua is suspect. We don’t think that he is truly a member of our party.”
“If you follow the trajectory of Kassim Afegbua in politics, you will recall that he was a onetime Commissioner in the administration of the former chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Thereafter, he claimed to have left the APC to join the PDP.”
“He was appointed because he worked with a particular Presidential aspirant and after the convention in Port Harcourt, all the aspirants dissolved their campaign structures and as a result of that, he found himself in the campaign structure of the candidate that emerged, which is the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.”
“We had an election in Edo, Afegbua’s home state. He left the PDP to work with Adam Oshiomhole and Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the APC and took an open position. On account of that, he was suspended from his ward. That was the last we heard of him until these allegations started.”
“The same leadership he said is not virile or not performing followed him to Edo State, picked a candidate for an election and he stood on the other side and his side was crushed in the election. Assuming Ize-Iyamu won that election, would Kassim have come back to the PDP, not to talk of assessing its leadership?”
“We have a structured way of conducting our affairs in the PDP. The national convention of the PDP will hold in December, 2021. If he feels very strongly against the current leadership, he can go and pick form to contest any office if he is a member of our party.”
“He also has the liberty to campaign even against the entire leadership if he chooses to. His actions amount to crashing the party and this is the same party from which he has benefited; the same leadership from which he has benefitted. Just because you wanted something at a particular time and you could not achieve it, you must bring down the house?”