“That being the case, you don’t expect us to fall into what we know is not popular and cannot help the party going forward.” Nigeria
The last time the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State won governorship election was in 2003. It was a controversial election that brought Dr. Chris Ngige into office. Some months later, the court threw Ngige out of office. Since then, PDP has not come near the exalted office.
It is, perhaps, on this background that discordant voices have begun to rage in the party since the conclusion of the Southeast zonal working committee meeting that held in Enugu, where it was resolved to jettison zoning in its guber primary. Although he added that it was too early in the day to say where the next governor after Obiano would come from, he re-echoed the mantra that rotation of governorship position was APGA’s creation, which should not apply to PDP in the state.
His media aide, Valentine Obieyem said: “It was more of Obi trying to achieve the balance of representation to avoid what was clearly unjust and capable of snowballing into a crisis for the state. If at any time the state wants rotation or any form of political arrangement, it would not be the imposition of one man because, if allowed to stand, history may interpret such as a predisposition of Obi to autocracy.
“Chief Austin Umahi contributed to the poor performance of Anambra state PDP in the last National Assembly election by causing confusion for the candidates on who the real wards and local government executives were…” “What action has Umahi taken so far to reconcile PDP factions in Anambra State than the inauguration of the Nwobu-led state executive,” he queried. “I know Nwobu has done his best so far, but he should not complicate matters for them by his unpopular decisions, because, even a toddler knows that there is an existing zoning arrangement in the state.”
Investigations revealed that Umahi may be acting based on certain facts that support that the number one office in the state had rotated among the three geopolitical zones and therefore, the office is free for grab by any zone in 2021, including that of the incumbent. On the other hand, Anambra Central is said to have produced Dr. Chris Ngige, who was governor from May 2003 to March 2006 and Peter Obi, who had his eight years from 2006 to 2014.
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