Chairman, Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries and Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, has disclosed that they were threatened during the conduct of the just-concluded exercise.

Umahi, who stated this on Tuesday night while presenting the report of his committee to the Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the party, however did not reveal who threatened them.

He stated that his committee did everything possible to maintain high integrity, adding: “We were threatened even as governors.”

He however urged party members to desist from heading to court over decisions reached by the leadership of the party, noting that the import of the Supreme Court judgement on the 14-month leadership crisis, means that decision of the party is supreme.

He said: “Any member going to court over dissolution of party executive is ignorant.

“We must do away with the mindset of people going to assignments like this to seek money. We had no interaction with anybody. We did everything possible to maintain high integrity. There is not threat we didn’t get even as governors. But after we said our prayers we said whatever will happen should happen.

“We must not send persons that we can’t vouch for their character to conduct party primaries.”

Recall that one of the aspirants and Chairman, Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Uba, had told the committee at the primary that he had filed a suit challenging the outcome of the ward congress.

Responding, Makarfi, who noted that they made the right choice by choosing the team that conducted the primaries, said “it was a challenging environment and you excelled.”

He appealed to members to work together, noting that the caretaker committee would soon call a stakeholders meeting to pacify aggrieved members.

Four of the seven PDP aspirants protested the outcome of the primary on grounds that the ward congress was fraught with irregularity and forged results. The aggrieved aspirants included the senator representing Anambra North Stella Oduah; a member of the House of Representatives Lynda Ikpeazu; Chairman Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Uba as well as former Minister of State for Transportation, Prince John Emeka.

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