The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may
declare the Anambra State senatorial
primaries inconclusive and therefore,
select one names among the aspirants for
submission to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Daily Sun
can authoritatively reveal.
This is in order to meet the Friday,
December 12, 2014 deadline for the
submission of candidates’ names to the
INEC, as provided by the election
timetable.
Daily Sun gathered that the PDP may
adopt this, owing to the controversy that
trailed the primaries in Anambra, in
which several factions announced
different winners, after a group of
aspirants stopped the panel sent from
Abuja by the PDP NWC to oversee the
exercise from conducting the primaries.
A drama had played out on Sunday,
when a group a senatorial aspirants and
other stakeholders in the state prevented
the panel sent from Abuja to conduct the
exercise from doing so. The aspirants’
grouse was that there was a court
judgment nullifying the actions and
activities of the PDP National Working
Committee (NWC) panel set up for
Anambra and that of the caretaker
committee raised for the state chapter of
the party.
The aspirants and stakeholders also said
they wanted to forestall the hijack and
manipulation of the process by some
people, who wanted to be returned as
candidates. They had therefore, prevailed
on the panel, made up of Alaye Tremie
Jnr (chairman), Rodney Ambaowei
(secretary), Prof Carl Okezie, Chief Obinna
Nnachukwu and Senator Bala Adamu, to
surrender the materials meant for the
primaries to the state’s commissioner of
police for safekeeping.
Having met a brick wall, the panel
surrendered the materials to the CP and
departed for Abuja.
However, the drama did not end there. In
the three senatorial districts, groups of
PDP members had organised primaries,
where winners were announced. In the
exercise, results favoured the preferred
aspirants, who got high votes, while other
aspirants in different factions were
allotted zero votes or meaningless scores.
In the Anambra North, former Minister of
Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, was
announced winner. Also, in the same
zone, former Minister of Water and
Transport, Prince John Emeka, emerged
winner in another faction’s primaries.
In Anambra Central, a member of the
House of Representatives, Mrs. Uche
Ekwunife, was presented as having
picked the ticket. In the same zone,
Senator Annie Okonkwo was declared
winner in another primaries conducted
by a faction.
In Anambra South, Senator Andy Ubah
and his brother, Chief Chris Ubah,
emerged victories in their respective
primaries.
In the race for the senatorial tickets were
other aspirants like Senator Margery
Okadigbo, who is representing Anambra
North in the Senate at present; Dr. Obiora
Okonkwo and Joy Emordi.
The trouble in Anambra is to caused by
factionalisation among three groups. One
of the factions is chaired by Chief Ejike
Oguebego. Another faction is handled by
a Caretaker Committee the PDP National
Working Committee constituted. The
third faction is led by Ken Emeakayi.
An Abuja High Court had, in suit No. ABJ/
CS/854/14 and FHC/ABJ/CS/827/14,
declared the PDP Caretaker Committee in
Anambra State null and void and directed
INEC not to accept results of the
congresses and primaries conducted by it.
Earlier, the court had pronounced that
the chairmanship of Emeakayi ended on
October 24, 2014. And other court
judgment had declared that Oguebego
cannot assume the chairmanship of the
state PDP, following the nullification of
Emeakayi’s tenure. This had prompted
the raising of caretaker committee by the
national PDP, which the court also
proscribed. This was the basis for the
stoppage of the primaries by some
aspirants and the deposit of the materials
with the commissioner of police in the
state.
Now that different factions are presenting
results and various winners, the PDP is
under pressure to pick one person from
each senatorial district, among the
aspirants, for submission to INEC by
Friday. The PDP will do this basd on the
provision that where there’s inconclusive
primaries, the political party would
present a name to INEC, which the
commission must accept.
Daily Sun gathered that the PDP may
constitute a panel, made up of Chairman,
Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih;
Akwa Ibom State Governor and Chairman
of the PDP Governors Forum, Chief
Godswill Akpabio, Deputy National
Chairman, Uche Secondus and National
Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwon to look
into the Anambra case and recommend
the names to submit to INEC.
It was gathered that the PDP is excluding
some key members of the party’s NWC
from the panel, as it believes that some of
them have vested interest in the Anambra
matter.
Sources revealed that the PDP leadership
is at a loss where the factions that
conducted primaries got the materials, as
the ones sent from Abuja were handed
over to the police commissioners when
some aggrieved aspirants insisted that the
primaries would not hold due to the court
judgment.
A source in the party said that neutral
aspirants in the factionalisation of the
state PDP, who did not participate in the
illegal primaries, may likely be favoured
in deciding names to be submitted to
INEC.

source:
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=94690

Anambra PDP is a proper case study of jaga jaga!!!

Imagine Chris Uba and Andy Uba having parallel primaries to declare themselves winners..

if I had my way its to ask the NWC to forget about presenting any candidate there..

In Anambra South, Senator Andy Ubah
and his brother, Chief Chris Ubah,
emerged victories in their respective
primaries