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PDP May Declare Anambra Primaries Inconclusive by Emyben(m): 7:26am On Dec 12, 2014 |
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
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Re: PDP May Declare Anambra Primaries Inconclusive by feelamong(m): 7:43am On Dec 12, 2014 |
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.. |
Re: PDP May Declare Anambra Primaries Inconclusive by Nobody: 7:50am On Dec 12, 2014 |
In Anambra South, Senator Andy Ubah |
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