The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Hon. Ndudi Elumelu and six others remain suspended.
The party stated that Hon. Kingsley Chinda is the party’s caucus leader at the House of Representatives.
PDP had in July suspended Elumelu, Wole Oke, Lynda Ikpeazu, Anayo Edwin, Gideon Gwadi, Toby Okechukwu and Adekoya Abdul-Majid.
The suspended members were nominated by the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, as minority leaders, against party’s the choice.
The PDP had nominated Chukwuka Onyema as deputy minority leader, Yakubu Barde as minority whip and Muraina Ajibola as deputy minority whip.
The party in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Friday in Abuja, said: &The suspension placed on some PDP Members, who connived with others to supplant the party’s decision with regards to party’s positions in the House of Representatives, is subsisting and has not been lifted.
&The suspended members of the party cannot therefore conduct any business of the party at whatever level until disciplinary measures have been concluded.’’
Continuing, the statement read: &that the National Working Committee (NWC) in its wisdom, knowing that nature abhors a vacuum and consistent with its position on the matter which has not changed, directed that the affairs of the PDP Caucus of the House of Representatives be organized and managed by Kingsley Chinda, Yakubu Barde, Chukwuka Onyema and Muraina Ajibola.
&That the members mentioned in paragraph 3 above have the express mandate and authority of the PDP to lead its caucus at the House of Representatives.