How the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party was sold to Chris Uba and Clement Ibeto by the National Working Committee of the party and the ignoble role played by the Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswan and the deputy national chairman of the People's Democratic Party, Dr. Mohammed Halliru Bello.

The financial deal to sell the Anambra PDP to Chris Uba and Ibeto, the Nnewi-born businessman was hatched early this year. One knowledgeable source said a fighting fund of N5 billion was budgeted for the whole deal.  Out of this amount, N1.5 billion was paid to members of the PDP's National Working Committee (NWC) to perfect the deal to hand over the state chapter.

Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue State had a prepared result that bore no semblance to the actual result from the PDP Wards Congress held Tuesday. 

However, just like the perfect murder where something must go wrong, the originators of the list failed to notice that one of the names on the list died two weeks ago from a road accident!

Apart from the violence that marred the ward congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State for the election of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the state for the 2010 elections, with supporters of rival governorship aspirants engaging one another in physical combat; the Congress was eventually conducted reasonably devoid of major infractions.

The result of the Ward Congress was still being collated around the state when governor Suswan released his prepared result to journalists while refusing to give a duplicate to the contestants. The aspirants request for a copy – which is normally distributed to them - of Governor Suswan’s list was rebuffed.

It was further gathered that the vast majority of the aspirants were alarmed over how the Governor Gabriel Suswam Ward Congress Committee came about the list of 928 elected delegates and threatened to pull out of the race en masse.  A source revealed to Elombah.com that the names in the “fake” result are all Chris Uba’s delegates. 

Some delegates were infuriated at the turn of events and moved to capture Suswan. But the governor abandoned Awka and fled to Abuja into the waiting arms of the NWC of the PDP.

An aspirant, Senator Obiorah said he is disappointed that the Governor and those he is working for would play on the intelligence of Anambra people by forcing the contestants at the ward level to fork out their hard earned money to buy the Delegates Form when the Governor and his cohorts have already made up their minds on their preferred choice. 

“It is cruel to have a villager earning N30, 000 a month to buy a N10, 000 Form and then disenfranchise him” He said. These people paid this high fee simply because they were made to believe the system will work this time”, he added. 

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MrCrackles:

Anambra in the news again. . . .

Yea, and still sounding like a broken record!