Source Dailytrust...
Ahead of November 16
governorship
election in Anambra State,
the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has
perfected
plans to frustrate the
ambition of former
Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) governor,
Prof Chukwuma Soludo.
A highly placed source told
Daily Sun that
the ‘Stop Soludo’ campaign
has become
the new mantra within the
highest ranks
of the PDP both at the state
and the
national level with overtures
being made
to Anambra Governor,
Peter Obi, not to
renege on his support for
the emergence
of a candidate from
Anambra North
senatorial zone as his
successor.
The former CBN boss, who
is from
Anambra South zone,
recently resigned
from the PDP and joined
the All
Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA), a
move considered strategic
and which
seemed to have changed
the tempo of the
tension-soaked
governorship race in the
state.
But Prof Soludo’s ambition
may be
heading for the rocks as
our source
disclosed that power
brokers in PDP had
been ordered to leave no
stones unturned
to ensure that the former
CBN boss does
not pick the ticket of his
new party for the
governorship election.
He informed that the PDP
hierarchy was
uncomfortable with the
resignation of
Professor Soludo from the
party and his
subsequent joining of
APGA to contest the
election.
Daily Sun learnt that
Soludo’s joining of
APGA had become a major
headache to
the PDP hierarchy as it has
cast a
question mark on the
capacity of the
party to succeed APGA
government,
which would leave office
early next year.
Top PDP chieftains in
Anambra State and
Abuja were said to have
been jolted by
the sudden reconciliation of
factions in
APGA and the subsequent
joining of the
party by Soludo.
“While our party is
currently battling with
the challenge of finding an
accommodation amongst
the many
gladiators being sponsored
by the
different factions of the
party in the
forthcoming election, the
last thing that
we had expected was the
entry into the
race by such a formidable
candidate as
Prof. Soludo, especially
through APGA, a
party that is in power and
enjoys fanatical
followership in the state.
“It would make a lot of
sense to eliminate
every obstacle to the
emergence of more
qualified and better-
favouredcandidates
in the other parties against
whom the PDP
candidate would not be a
match,” he said,
adding, “it is also being
canvassed inside
the party that Soludo is the
most
prominent among such
potential
opposition candidates due
to his clout,
acceptability and standing in
the state,” he
said.
He said the PDP was scared
that on
picking the APGA ticket,
Soludo, who
contested the last Anambra
governorship
election would take away
his supporters
that constitute a bulk of the
party’s
membership in Anambra.
Part of the fears in PDP
according to our
source was that the crisis
following the
outcome of the PDP
screening and
selection processes might
result in exodus
of members from the party
and that APGA
and Soludo would be the
greatest
beneficiaries.
Daily Sun was informed
that the PDP was
determined to checkmate
Soludo,
considered as the front-
runner in the
APGA primaries even as the
party is also
worried over who
becomes the APC
candidate.

Hmmm..we are watching. Ngige,if God be for you no soludo can be against you