Former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam is not fit to preside over the Electoral Panel Committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that will preside over the election of new National Working Committee, NWC for the party at its next Saturday’s Convention, a group within the party, Professionals for the Defence of Integrity and Equity has said.
In an open letter to the Chairman, PDP Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, rejecting the appointment of Suswam on Sunday signed by its Chairman, Tichus Zungeru, the group said, “Mr. Suswam surely does not represent a symbol of unbiased purity, the very image of sanitising wholesomeness without which we cannot have a clean, equitable, unsoiled election.
“For one, Mr. Suswam is a known ally and sworn friend of Mr. Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State, who does not hide his brazen sponsorship of Uche Secondus for the national chairmanship position of our party.
“With such an obviously compromised scenario, we do not need a soothsayer to tell us how Mr. Suswan will behave as chairman of such a very important committee. Naturally he will be working for Secondus.
“Mr Suswam’s appointment is therefore unacceptable to us.”
The group noted that Suswam had been tainted by corruption cases filed against him by the EFCC: “Surely, he is hardly the right person for such a very sensitive job. We therefore demand that the national caretaker committee should strike off his name immediately.”