THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the process to replace its deputy national secretary, Victor Giadom.
The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Wednesday declared the seat vacant. Giadom, for the second time on Wednesday declared himself acting national chairman.
The National Vice Chairman, Southsouth, Hillard Eta said yesterday: “In the wisdom of the NWC, they asked us in the Southsouth to bring a name to fill the vacancy that had been created.
“As a member of the NWC and National Vice Chairman of the party and as one who coordinates the activities of the party in the Southsouth and who represents the National Chairman, I have now communicated the Rivers State chapter to who this particular position has been micro-zoned, to now meet as a party to bring out the name and forward that name to the Southsouth zone for ratification and onward transmission to the NWC. That is what we are in the process of doing”.
Sheeding light on how Giadom’s office became vacant, Eta said, “Chief Victor Giadom resigned to contest as deputy governorship candidate of the party, and it is on record, we transmitted his name to INEC, he printed posters and he could not have done so, we could not have transmitted his name, he could not have campagined has deputy governorship candidate of our party without first resigning his office.
“So, in the wisdom of the NWC, they now asked us in the Southsouth to bring forth a name to fill that vacancy that had been created. I think we should be very clear on this, I think whatever mistakes, whatever missteps have been done cannot viciate the grand law of the party, which is the Constitution of the party”.
But, when told that Giadom claimed that the NWC granted him a wavier, which enabled him to return to office after the election, the National Vice Chairman maintained that Giadom has ceased to be a NWC member of NWC, arguing that the former deputy national Secretary was economical with the truth.
Eta said: “You see the Constitution of our party is not a voluminous book for you to find out whether anyone can be given a waiver from resignation, we don’t even have it in our constitution.
“If Chief Giadom feels very bad or very strongly about what the resolution of the NWC, of course, like he is always doing, he can proceed to court, but that is the resolution of the NWC.”
