The fortunes of incumbent senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District Chief Ifeanyi Ubah appears to be brightening following the withdrawal of PDP gubernatorial candidate Mr Valentine Ozigbo from the Senatorial contest.
Already fifty percent of the members of the PDP in Anambra South Senatorial District have defected to the Young Progressives Party YPP as a result of the withdrawal of Ozigbo and Mr Peter Obi from the presidential and Senatorial races .
According to the Coordinator Anambra South People’s Forum Elder Samson Ubajiaka who spoke to reporters yesterday in Awka;
The treatment the duo of Peter Obi and Valentine Ozigbo shows that our party is set to die and these are the machinations of some people who feel that they own the plarty.
We have left the party and we are going to work for Sen Ifeanyi Ubah in this coming election and we shall make sure that the party do not win any seat in the state and National Assemblies ; he said
According to the letter of withdrawal by Mr Valentine Ozigbo he expressed his unhappiness over the lack of internal democracy in the party.
I refuse to dignify the rot of the process by participating in Anambra South Senatorial Primary. Evil comes in many colours. In PDP Anambra, its primary colour is Chris Uba. The secondary colours are in the National Working Committee of the Party that enabled him and his cohorts.
I am afraid that the entire process leading up to preparing the PDP Anambra Chapter for the primary is fundamentally flawed and I will not dignify this mockery of due process and blatant disregard for decency with my continued participation.
Yesterday, I formally wrote to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, of my withdrawal from contesting the primary for the ticket for the senatorial seat of Anambra South.
The problems we face cannot be solved by acquiescing to the discredited notion that regards every long-standing member of the PDP as a “leader” or “stakeholder”. It is time we define what leadership means to us in the PDP.
It is imperative that the PDP, which Dr Ayu leads, makes this our focus if we wish to remain a party of the people in Anambra and take power at the centre in 2023; or else, we are in for a rude awakening.
How is it that one aspirant, an interested party in the process for the Congress, takes over the process by supplying the names of his domestic staff and allies to be on the panel coming to Anambra to conduct the Ad Hoc Congress?
Specifically, Captain Umar Bature (Rtd), PDP National Organising Secretary (NOS), is complicit in this dangerous and divisive approach to conducting the internal elections of our party.
