The impasse crippling political activities in
the Ebonyi State chapter of the ruling
People’s Democratic Party ( PDP) took a
deeper crisis dimension on Tuesday, as a
meeting between President Goodluck
Jonathan and the warring parties was
inconclusive.
The president, LEADERSHIP gathered had
summoned the state Governor, Martins
Elechi; Secretary to Government of the
Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim and the PDP
governorship candidate for Ebonyi state,
David Umahi as well as some PDP leaders
to the meeting with a view to addressing the
political rancor once and for all.
The meeting, which lasted for over five
hours in the President’s office at the
presidential villa Abuja was also attended
by Vice President Namadi Sambo and some
PDP governors led by chairman of their
forum and Akwa Ibom State Governor,
Obong Godswill Akpabio.
Also in attendance were Governors Sule
Lamido of Jigawa State and his Benue
counterpart, Gabriel Suswam.
After the December governorship primary in
which former Health Minister, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu who was Elechi’s
candidate lost to the governor’s deputy said
to be the preferred candidate of the SGF, the
state has been embroiled in a serious crisis.
The embattled governor who also failed to
scale through his own senatorial primary is
at the moment facing impeachment threat
from the Ebonyi State House of Assembly on
allegations of misappropriation of funds,
gross misconduct and anti party activities,
as he is said to have shifted his support to
the Labour Party governorship candidate in
the state.
It became apparent that yesterday’s
meeting could not resolve the impasse in
Ebonyi when the Elechi stormed out of the
president’s office looking rather angry.
He was very hostile to State House
correspondents who had approached him
for the outcome of the meeting, just as he
threatened to brake a tape recorder
belonging to one of the reporters.
The governor who said he was not in Aso
Rock to answer questions from journalists
raised his walking stick, threatening angrily
to smash the tape recorder of the
correspondent who was adamant on getting
answers from him.
Benue State Governor, Suswam who spoke
to journalists acknowledged the fact that the
political crisis in Ebonyi was one of the
major issues discussed at the meeting,even
as he said the impasse in the south east
state would soon be over.
Suswam who came out of the meeting few
minutes after his Ebonyi counterpart had left
denied, however that Elechi did not storm
out of the meeting, contrary to the
impression created by his body language.
He argued that the meeting went well and
that Elechi only rushed out IOC the meeting
the way he did to meet up with his flight.
He said, “I don’t think he (Elechi) stormed
out of the meeting. We ended the meeting
properly, and I believe he had a flight to
catch and so, he was rushing.
“Yes, Ebonyi problem was one of the issues
discussed in the meeting, but we are almost
at the solution to that problem. So I think
the governor was rushing to catch a flight”.
On the allegation that some PDP candidates
were not campaigning for other candidates
of the ruling party, especially the party’s
presidential candidate, Jonathan, the
governor dismissed the claim as near
impossible.
He explained that all candidates of the party
were duty bound to campaign for the party
which implied that every single candidate
was campaigning for all others of the party
platform, not excluding the presidential
ticket bearer.
He said: “I don’t think that is true. People
have different ways of campaining, and as a
senatorial candidate there’s no way I can be
campaigning for my seat alone without
campaignong for the president.
“You know in political parties we have
issues. Different candidates have different
issuses. There are no universal issues
across the lenght and breadth of the parties.
So it is not true that people are not
campaigning for the president.
“There are minor issues here and there and
those issues like I said since yesterday, you
will observe that between yesterday and
today, we’ve been meeting. We are meeting
because we want to be in charge, we want
to be abreast. PDP is going to win this
election landslide, there’s no two ways
about it. Forget about the noise and
propaganda. We are ready and willing, and
nothing is going to stop it.
“So there’s no issue of not campaigning for
the president. We are all campaigning for
the PDP. and all the PDP candidates
across, even if no names are mentioned.”
Suswam further explained that the series of
convened by President Jonathan with PDP
governors, candidates and party leaders in
the last few days were targeted at
calibrating the ruling party as safe guard for
victory in the forthcoming general poll

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GEJ till 2019!!!

Need these men in my ranch! too many spades littering about on the soil while these men are just loitering

who cares?

Elechi that could not win even his own senatorial zone!

he is of no political value!!