President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is a sad man. He is not happy because of the inability of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to conduct primaries to pick its candidate for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State.
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed this yesterday at the Anambra State Public Officers and Elders Forum (ASPOF) National Summit on Security and Development held in Abuja.
Also, former Common-wealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who spoke at the occasion, said peoples’ votes must count in next year’s governorship election.
He said the politics of do-or-die and political godfatherism must not be allowed to rear its head in the February 6 election.
PDP ward congress to elect delegates that will pick the party’s flag bearer for the February 6 poll was riddled with confusion and violence.
Following the inability of the party to continue with the process and the ensuing court cases by some aspirants, the 47 PDP aspirants were given time to elect a consensus candidate among themselves.
It was when they failed that the party selected former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Chukwuma Soludo as its candidate for the poll.
Jonathan, who delivered the keynote address at the summit said: “Mr. President felt so sad that our own party, PDP, couldn’t conduct primaries in Anambra State… We are quite sad because we believe that PDP being the ruling party should lead by example.”
The vice-president said, “I don’t want to go into whether they did the right thing or the wrong thing,” but stated that some of the aspirants who used court processes to delay and frustrate the party from electing the governorship candidate through the delegate election should be blamed.

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