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Wabara
By CHARLES IWUOHA
A former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, may likely face a disciplinary committee to be set up by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State to explain some statements credited to him recently by the media, which border on anti-party activities.
Wabara who is the acting chairman of PDP Board of Trustees had allegedly said that he endorses the state governor, Alex Otti, for a second term after he (Otti) has demonstrated leadership.
Vice Chairman and acting Publicity Secretary of Abia PDP, Abraham Amah, said the committee would be inaugurated after the party’s State Working Committee (SWC) meeting.
Amah, who made this known in Umuahia during a live programme on Flo 94.9 FM, said that Wabara must use the occasion to apologise to the party for making statements that could bring ‘collateral damage’ to the reputation of PDP.
The PDP Vice Chairman, who said that the former Senate President was at liberty to make personal statements on governance in the state and the country at large, however, said that such expression should not bring damage to the party.
“In a few days’ time, the State Working Committee is meeting; in that meeting, we are setting up a disciplinary committee. He has to face the disciplinary committee,” Amah vowed.
He further avowed that Wabara could only be forgiven by the party if he apologised to the disciplinary committee for his alleged unguarded utterances.
According to him, the claim by the former Senate President that he was misquoted by the media was not acceptable to the Abia PDP until he appeared before the disciplinary committee to explain himself and offer the necessary apologies.
Abia PDP recently issued a statement in which it disowned the former Senate President’s alleged endorsement of Governor Alex Otti for a second term in office.
On the Abia State government’s recent directive that the Lokpanta Cattle Market in Umuchieze, Umunnochi Local Government Area should operate as a daily market, Abraham Amah commended Governor Alex Otti for taking the step.
