Embattled National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has dismissed his purported suspension by his Ward in Rivers State.

Secondus in a statement by his media office shortly after the news of his alleged suspension broke on Wednesday afternoon, pointed out that only the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) can discipline him.

The statement signed by his Spokesman Ike Abonyi reads: “The media office of Prince Uche Secondus ordinarily should not be responding to every ‘noise’ in the media being engineered by those who set out to distract and destroy the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but it's our responsibility to guide those who are easily persuaded by news in the media hence this response.

“Such action is a mere wish as Article 59(3) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, constitution states clearly that only the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party can discipline the National Chairman or any other National officer of the party.

“Members of the public and the media should therefore be wary of agents out to distract PDP from the focus of retrieving our beloved country from the irreparable damage already done to it by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.”