Trouble For Party Chair Uche Secondus In Fight To Take Away Osun PDP Guber Ticket From Adeleke

There is an emerging trouble for People’s Democratic Party national chairman, Uche Secondus.

Sources confirm the trouble that has started rocking his world is all about the shadow election that produced embattled Senator Demola Adeleke as the candidate of the party for the September 22 gubernatorial election in Osun state.

Secondus is accused of actions against the interests of the leaders of the party in the state.

“He is fingered as manipulating the party gubernatorial primary to produce Adeleke as winner” a source stated.

Societynow.ng gathered that the narrative gaining ground within the party is that Demola’s elder brother Deji Adeleke “struck the deal with Secondus”.

The bait of heavy war chest for the Osun gubernatorial election and promises of financial commitments for party and personal undertakings reportedly “cemented” the arrangement.

“It was executed when there was a light out during vote counting, supporters of Senator Adeleke’s closest rival Akin Ogunbiyi claimed their principal mysterious lost 175 votes before electricity was restored” a source claimed.

Adeleke was declared the winner with less than 10 votes more than Ogunbiyi’s.

Checks by societynow.ng revealed Adeleke was the least favoured by the state leaders of the party to become PDP candidate.

The Senator is believed to carry a baggage of scandals that would blow off whatever chances the party has of securing power.

“This is including the tag unserious politician enhanced by his public dancing of no border of decorum” a source disclosed.

The Senator is currently battling allegation of lacking educational qualification to retain position as Senator or aspire to become Governor.

Sources disclosed despite the Senator’s troubles, the party chairman has gone as far as orchestrating rejection of appeals by aggrieved aspirants in the Osun gubernatorial primaries.

The development has forced the seven gubernatorial hopefuls to join forces and make a public move against the party’s candidate and his “shadowy” backers at the National level of the PDP.

Sources disclosed the major problem for Secondus is that the development greatly taking away points from his clout and integrity as general election rolls in.

“You know he faced intense opposition to emerge party chairman? This development is giving his opponents within the party the ammunition to bury him sooner than expected. The plan to take away his powers and reduce him to a figurehead has been activated” a source stated.