{"id":16661,"date":"2013-08-26T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=16661"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:08:47","slug":"rivers-pdp-expel-18-political-office-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/rivers-pdp-expel-18-political-office-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers PDP Expel  18  Political Office Holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State Chapter Monday\u00a0 expelled 18 members of the party for failing without any justifiable reason to submit themselves before the performance evaluation committee of the party.<\/p>\n<p>The State Chairman of the party, Bro Felix Obuah made this disclosure while briefing newsmen in his Aba Road State Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Those expelled according to the chairman include: Mr George Feyii\u00a0 &#8211; Secretary to Government,\u00a0 Sir Tony Okocha \u2013 Chief of Staff to Government Hous, Dr Sam-Jaja \u2013 Former Deputy National Chairman PDP, Mrs Aleruchi Cookey-Gam \u2013 Administrator, GPHCDA,\u00a0 Mr Victor Giadom,\u00a0 Hon. Commissioner for Works, Hon Augustine D. Wokocha, Hon. Commissioner for Power,\u00a0 Worgu Bom Esq, Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice,\u00a0 Joe P. Poroma, Hon. Commissioner for Social Welfare &amp; Rehabilitation, Ezemonye Ezekiel Amadi, Hon. Commissioner for Lands &amp; Survey, Hon Fred Igwe, Hon. Commissioner for Sports,\u00a0 Hon Emmanuel Chinda, Hon. Commissioner for Agriculture, Hon Mrs Joeba West, Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Patricia Simon Hart,\u00a0 Hon. Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development,\u00a0 Hon Okey Amadi, Hon. Commissioner for Energy, Mr Charles Okaye, Hon. Commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs, Dr Nnabuihe N. Imegwu, Hon. Commissioner for Culture &amp; Tourism, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, Hon. Commissioner for Information &amp; Communication and Mr Samuel Eyiba, Hon Commissioner for Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>The party chairman further explained that the party, acting on the recommendation of the disciplinary and the performance evaluation committee, had to wield the big stick on the affected members for not only refusing to honour the performance assessment committee\u2019s invitation but also not considering it worthwhile to excuse themselves or send in written reports of their stewardships if they were not chanced to put up appearance despite the well publicized sitting arrangements of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to the chairman is considered as an affront, insubordination and lack of respect for constituted authority, stressing that the committee duly notified all concerned and was willing to accept any written report from such persons where necessary but did not receive any supervening circumstance that made it impossible for any of them to honour the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had no choice but to show them the way out of the party because we cannot continue to operate in this disorderly manner being a serious and disciplined political party\u201d, the chairman remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman however noted that those who did not appear before the performance evaluation committee escaped the party sanction were those who were able to reach both the party leadership as well as the committee but most importantly, sent in a documentation of their performances which the committee accepted as satisfactorily.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State Chapter Monday\u00a0 expelled 18 members of the party for failing without any justifiable reason to submit themselves before the performance evaluation committee of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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