{"id":167475,"date":"2025-06-27T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/our-constitution-does-not-empower-nec-pdp-chieftain"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:22:00","slug":"our-constitution-does-not-empower-nec-pdp-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/our-constitution-does-not-empower-nec-pdp-chieftain","title":{"rendered":"Our Constitution does not empower NEC \u2014 PDP Chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Caretaker Chairman and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, George Tunah, says the National Executive Committee, NEC, does not have the constitutional power to elect or remove national officers of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Tunah made this clarification on Thursday, when he appeared on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018The Morning Brief.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is coming amid the rejection of the reinstatement of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the PDP by 11 members of the National Working Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>PDP Acting Chairman, Umar Damagum, in a press briefing earlier on Wednesday, announced the cancellation of the NEC meeting and reinstatement of Anyanwu as the national secretary.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tunah, there was never a 99th NEC meeting, stressing that the constitution of the party was clear as to how a NEC could be convened and who should issue a notice of a NEC meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy our constitution, a national officer of the party is elected at the national convention for a secure term of for years. Now, this term of office can only be cut short either by removal, resignation, or other processes enabled by the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only organ of our party that has the powers by our constitution to elect or remove national officers is the convention, not even the NEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, unlike the situation when the constitution allows the NWC to make decisions on behalf of the NEC in the case of emergency, it is not the same with the national convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo section of our constitution gives any power to even the NEC to make any decision on behalf of the convention. Whatever is restricted to the convention must be done by the convention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Caretaker Chairman and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, George Tunah, says the National Executive Committee, NEC, does not have the constitutional power to elect or remove national officers of the party. Tunah made this clarification on Thursday, when he appeared on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018The Morning Brief.\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,2660],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-167475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"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>Our Constitution does not empower NEC \u2014 PDP Chieftain - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/uncategorized\/our-constitution-does-not-empower-nec-pdp-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our Constitution does not empower NEC \u2014 PDP Chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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