{"id":134921,"date":"2024-10-20T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:50:22","slug":"pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up","title":{"rendered":"PDP Crisis: Why I kicked out Uche Secondus as National Chairman \u2013 Wike opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has given reasons why he kicked out Uche Secondus as the national Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prior to the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Uche Secondus, an elder statesman, was the Chairman of the PDP National Working Committee in 2017 and was suspended by the party in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Wike, while addressing his followers and members of the PDP in Port Harcourt on Saturday, said he kicked out Secondus because as National Chairman, he wanted to bring Tele Ikuru to run for the governorship position of the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cWhy did we kick out Secondus? We kicked him out because he wanted to bring his cousin Tele Ikuru. Get out, get out, who are you?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kicked him out. I have no regret about it. And it\u2019s true. We kicked him out. I heard some leaders say, \u2018how can a ward Chairman remove a national chairman?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo ward Chairman removed a national chairman. What the ward did was suspend him from the party. When you\u2019re suspended from the party, can you hold that position? People don\u2019t even understand the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Secondus, had recently hailed Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State for refusing to bow to Wike\u2019s alleged intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Secondus was reacting to the outcome of the local government election in Rivers State, saying Fubara showed true leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has given reasons why he kicked out Uche Secondus as the national Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prior to the 2023 general elections. Prince Uche Secondus, an elder statesman, was the Chairman of the PDP National Working Committee in 2017 and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":134920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254,4806,1190,454],"class_list":["post-134921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp-crisis","tag-uche-secondus","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP Crisis: Why I kicked out Uche Secondus as National Chairman \u2013 Wike opens up - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has given reasons why he kicked out Uche Secondus as the national Chairm ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Crisis: Why I kicked out Uche Secondus as National Chairman \u2013 Wike opens up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has given reasons why he kicked out Uche Secondus as the national Chairm ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-20T11:38:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-20T12:50:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729416004.648791.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"928\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"520\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Crisis: Why I kicked out Uche Secondus as National Chairman \u2013 Wike opens up\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-20T11:38:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-20T12:50:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\"},\"wordCount\":256,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729416004.648791.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP crisis\",\"Uche Secondus\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/pdp-crisis-why-i-kicked-out-uche-secondus-as-national-chairman-wike-opens-up\",\"name\":\"PDP Crisis: Why I kicked out Uche Secondus as National Chairman \u2013 Wike opens up - 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