The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Anambra state, says Mr Valentine Ozigbo remains the candidate of the party on the Nov. 6 governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n
Sen. Ben Obi, the former senator representing Anambra Central District and member of the PDP board of trustees in Awka on Sunday said that the party\u2019s National Working Committee only recognised Mr Ozigbo as its candidate for the election.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know about the second candidate emerging in PDP. For people who are used to trading with the party over the years, we\u2019re not concerned about that.<\/p>\n
“As far as we\u2019re concerned, as leaders and members of the party, we had the primary that was conducted at the Women Development Center in Awka, and PDP\u2019s candidate emerged in the person of Valentine Ozigbo.<\/p>\n
“So, we\u2019re not on the same page with people talking about conducting parallel primary.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, our duty as BOT in the party is to initiate a process that can unite the party towards the coming election. For Ozigbo, he has the unique duty to bring his co-aspirants together and unite them; so that together, we can ensure that the party is not divided.<\/p>\n
“We want a united PDP. We won\u2019t encourage a political movement where people will carry court orders in their pockets all the time. We want PDP to return to power after almost 16 years of being out of the government house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a provision in the PDP Constitution that when you take the party to court, you\u2019ll be disciplined. It is because these characters are not disciplined that they continued in their antics. We\u2019ll not encourage them this time around.<\/p>\n
“As party leaders, we can\u2019t take this any longer,” Obi said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the development, the former Minister for Women Affairs, Mrs Josephine Anenih, also called on the party to sanction characters parading parallel candidates for the governorship election,” Obi said.<\/p>\n
Describing them as sworn enemies of the party, Anenih insisted that these characters, whose stock in trade is to merchandize the party in every election season, were paid by desperate politicians to carry court orders in their pockets wherever they go, in order to ensure that the party do not go into elections as a united family.<\/p>\n
Anenih, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the party, said, \u201cFor the past 16 years, PDP has been out of power in Anambra state.<\/p>\n
“At every election circle, this same character will have a parallel congress. That is their stock in trade.<\/p>\n
“As we\u2019re talking about reconciling with people who are not happy at the party, there is no way these characters could be made happy, because, they\u2019re spoilers. What they\u2019re interested in doing is to merchandize the party and to make sure there\u2019s no stability.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always wondered why PDP will not sanction these characters and ask them to allow the party to be, because, they\u2019re definitely not patriotic and loyal to be a party.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re just trading with PDP, and other political parties afraid of PDP are using them to destabilize the party. The worst is that these characters \u2013 these parallel congress people, who claim to be party members, don\u2019t even support PDP during elections.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019ve been sworn enemies of the party since inception. Their duties were to trade with the party, but it will not work for them this time around. This time around, PDP is no longer going to join issues with them.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re going to ignore them, discountenance whatever they\u2019re doing, and remain focused as a party.
\n\u201cFor the party faithful in Anambra, especially the delegates, who felt they were disenfranchised during the primary, we\u2019ve been reaching out to them, explaining to them what happened.<\/p>\n
“It was in trying to make sure that the party is on the ballot paper come November 16 governorship election that PDP decided to have a primary using what we called super delegates. PDP is determined that nobody will prevent it from taking over the Anambra government house, come March 17, 2022.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ll get there this time around.\u201d
\nThese spoilers; these sworn enemies of PDP, will not stop us. We\u2019re going to break that jinx, and we\u2019re getting to where we\u2019re going,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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