₦airaland Forum

A major crisis is brewing within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following fallout from party primaries.

Across the country, many aggrieved aspirants
who were short-changed in the process are crying foul and threatening to defect en-masse to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) party in order to frustrate the ambition of imposed candidates.

Checks across the states reveal that many of the
governorship aspirants in state like Rivers,
Adamawa, Enugu, Taraba, Sokoto and Kebbi
States have vowed to give a bad blow to the
ambitions of so-called anointed candidates and
work against the success of the party in favor of
the opposition party wherever they can do so.

One of the aggrieved aspirant today in Abuja
appeared on a Radio Program (Ray Power), the
apparent, a former deputy governor in Sokoto
state, Mukhtar Shehu Shagari said that the result
declared in the state was written by somebody
and that no primary election was conducted. "I personally went to meet with the election
committee and told them that with the situation
on ground election cannot hold because
delegates were allowed to enter the venue and
security situation was not encouraging and I told
them to postpone the election, not only that I even wrote it and handed it over to them but they
ignored me.

Now they have announced the result
written by one person and said that I had just
only one vote out of 984 delegates while the
imposed aspirant got 983 ".
Mr. Shagari has asked the party to rescind its
decision and re-conduct a fresh election for all the
aspirants or deal with the consequences.

"Therefore I wish to call on the national
leadership of our party (PDP) to take note that
there was no gubernatorial primary election for
Sokoto PDP, disband the electoral committee
which by the attitude of its chairman, cannot
guarantee a free and fair conduct of the primary
election.

My appeal to the leadership of our great party,
the PDP is to formally and immediately set up an
unbiased Electoral Committee made up of
credible men and women of proven integrity to
conduct the Gubernatorial primaries for Sokoto
state within the shortest possible time.”, Shagari
stated.

Shagari shocked listeners when he said that APC
was an organized party in the state coupled with
the likes of its candidate, Aminu Tambuwal. He
maintained that if PDP fails to field him as the flag
bearer the party will lose in the state.

Though
Shagari did not reveal his next line of action but
a reliable source within the party said that he has
perfected his plan to pitch his tent with the APC.

In Rivers State 15 aspirants alleged that their
names were deleted from the list of contestants
for the state governorship primaries, leaving only Nyesom Wike, a former education minister
imposed on the state PDP by the first lady,
Patience Jonathan. The aggrieved aspirants
recently held a joint press briefing asking for
outright cancellation of the purported
governorship primary. According to a reliable
source close to the aspirants, many of them have
perfected plan to work for the emergence of APC
candidate in the general election.

In Taraba State where the party moved the
governorship primary for the state to Abuja to
enable the fraudulent installation of a candidate
favored by billionaire and former army general,
Theophilus Danjuma, the party reportedly sold
the governorship slot to General Danjuma, who
selected Samuel Ortom-Darius Ishyaku, a former
Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs to get the ticket.

In Enugu State, three candidates have emerged
in a bitterly contested primary, they include
Senator Ayogu Eze, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and
Professor Onyeke O. Onyeke, all from Enugu
North senatorial zone where the governorship
slot had been zoned by the party.

Crisis started in the state when the Electoral Panel
arrived Enugu from Abuja with a different list of
delegates which was reportedly handed to them
by the National Secretariat of the party.

The
bizarre occurrence forced all other the aspirants
to conduct parallel elections in their respective
constituencies and declared themselves winner.

Feelers from the state indicated that in the next
few weeks some of the aggrieved aspirants will
move en mass with their supporters to the
opposition party.

In Lagos, former Minister of State for Defense,
Musiliu Obanikoro has dragged the party to the
court over the shoddy conduct of the
gubernatorial primary in the state and continued
to threaten fire and brimstone. The Lagos
governorship primary had a dubious distinction
of producing more votes than the number of the
delegates at the convention that produced
newcomer Jimi Agbaje as governorship candidate.

In Oyo state where a former Senate leader, Teslim
Folarin emerged as the PDP party flag bearer,
many aggrieved candidates said elections did not
take place at all. The disagreement has forced a
former governor of the state, Alao Akala to move
to the Labour Party in protest against the
manipulation that characterized the exercise,
others took the party to court to get a
cancellation of the exercise.

Adamawa State primary which later held in Abuja
where the former chairman of Economic and
Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu
emerged as the winner continues to feed
discontent in the party. A group of aspirants led
by the incumbent governor of the State, Bala
Ngilari, met and decided to suspend Ribadu from
the party at the state level.

With the the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari
as the presidential flag bearer of the All
Progressive Congress (APC), the PDP is jittery that
the APC stands to reap from its internal crisis and
disaffection of many party aspirants schemed out
its primaries

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