Anambra PDP Senatorial List: INEC Report Declares Chris Uba, John Emeka, Others Winners

Chibuzo Ukaibe
— Jan 11, 2015 | 6 Comments

The controversy trailing the list of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates for the senatorial elections in Anambra State, heightened yesterday as a report from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) revealed that Chief Chris Uba, Prince John Emeka and Senator Annie Okonkwo won the primaries for the Anambra South,Central and North Senatorial districts.

This was contained in a report of the INEC team that monitored the primaries of the party in the state.

The list of senatorial candidates of PDP from the state has been a subject of intense dispute.

But according to a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the committee’s report obtained by LEADERSHIP Sunday, the INEC headquarter led by Chika Okafor an assistant director in the commission, Adam Dan-Shuaibu a principal admin officer and Joy Uba a senior executive officer, the PDP primaries in the state conducted on the December 7 under the Chief Ejike Oguebego leadership was very peaceful and witnessed a smooth sail.

The report further reads: “Generally speaking, the Peoples Democratic Party primaries did not come short of expectations as it took place peacefully in all the senatorial constituencies in the state. The result of the primaries was generally accepted by the members of the party as the correct expression of their collective wishes and desires. It would also be pertinent to say at this juncture that, that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Anambra State chapter did comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) as well as their laid down congresses/primaries guidelines and the Constitution.

According to the preamble of the PDP guidelines for primary elections 2014, it is clearly stipulated that candidates of political parties will only emerge through primary elections duly conducted and monitored by INEC (Section 87(1) (a).

Political parties are no longer allowed to change or substitute candidates whose names have been submitted to INEC, except in the case of death or withdrawal of candidates (Section 33).

The INEC committee in its report to the commission further stated that the PDP adopted open ballot system otherwise known as option A4 to elect their senatorial flag bearers and that during the primaries, the voting process was simple and straightforward, firstly nominations were called for, after which delegates queued up and voted for candidates of their choice before counting and recording of scores were done. The contestant with the simple majority of votes cast was declared the winner”.

Source: leadership

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