Suspension order on Aivoji, Benedict unlawful — Lagos PDP
MEMBERS of the State Working Committee, SWC, and the State Executive Committee, SEC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, yesterday, described the purported suspension of the party's state Chairman and his Deputy, Messrs Phillip Aivoji and Tai Benedict, as unlawful and unconstitutional. In a communiqué by 27 of the 39-member SEC, the party considered the action of the disgruntled five members of the SWC usurping the constitutional responsibilities of the majority of the SWC and the SEC, as a nullity ab-initio and an unprecedented level of impunity, as they lacked the constitutional powers and the required number to execute such a dastardly act. The communiqué further added that the State Working Committee and indeed the State Executive Committee has no constitutional power to take any disciplinary action against the state chairman or to ratify the suspension or disciplinary action against the said state officer of the party as such power resides with the National ...