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A group of governorship aspirants and stakeholders from Abia State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has warned against fraudulently generated delegate list which the state chapter is hoping to use for its primary elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Spokesperson of the group and the\u00a0<\/span>Minority Leader of the Senate,\u00a0\u00a0Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who spoke to the media at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja said the party must avoid self destruct.<\/div>\n
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He said, “There was not and has never been any Ward Congress to elect the 3-man Adhoc delegates in Abia State. The congress, earlier scheduled to hold on 30th April, 2022 was cancelled due to a court order and therefore, could not hold. It was re-scheduled to hold on May 4th 2022. It also failed to hold on that date because of a public holiday declared in Abia State and since then none has been held, neither has there been any communication for another congress by PDP National Headquarters.<\/div>\n
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“This can be verified vide an official letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that confirmed the last official communication between it and PDP to the effect that no congresses to elect the 3-man Ad-hoc delegates for the party primary elections has held up till today (See Attachment)<\/div>\n
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“We heard via rumours that there is a list of adhoc delegates flying around and in the custody of the NWC purporting it to have been a product of a congress held on 6th May 2022.<\/div>\n
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“It is preposterous that what is being bandied as a list emanated from an imaginary congress conducted vide a letter of notice to the Abia State Resident Electoral Commissioner signed by the Abia State Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Allwell Asiforo Okere. The implication being that the functions of NEC and NWC was performed by a State Chairman of the party and NOT the National Chairman and Secretary of PDP.<\/div>\n
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“Our great party, should therefore disregard any of such list especially now that INEC has come forward to clarify that it neither received any communication from the PDP National Chairman and the National Secretary to participate nor did it monitor any such exercise as required by both the INEC Guidelines for Political Parties Section 1.2 which stipulates a mandatory 7-day notice to INEC and Section 82(5) of the Electoral Act 2022<\/div>\n
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“The National Legal adviser, we believe, knows the implications of going ahead to use such legally unknown delegates in the primary elections and should advise the NWC accordingly, unless the party wants to enjoy the unenviable luxury of walking towards self-destruction.<\/div>\n
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“The Abia Sate Chairman of PDP, Mr Asiforo Okere in writing and sending such notice, clearly overreached himself and by so doing flagrantly ran afoul of the extant laws both that of the PDP and the Electoral Act. The Act provides for the channels of communication between the political parties and the INEC<\/div>\n
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“The commission as the Electoral Act provides relates only with the National Executives of political parties. Therefore communications for the purposes of congresses and convention must be through the National Chairman and the National Secretary. Assuming without conceding that a congress held on the 6th of May, 2022, where did the Abia State Chairman of PDP derive his powers to solely conduct a party congress and even write to invite the State Resident electoral commissioner for the same purpose.<\/div>\n
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“It will be imprudent for the NWC to be seen to have allowed its powers to be so usurped knowing the dire consequences of such action on the electoral process and the quest to enhance the fortunes of the party in the 2023 General elections.<\/div>\n
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“The NWC should as a matter of fact know that the State Chairman’s actions with that letter failed to satisfy the requirements of the law as it is the NWC and or the NEC of the party that has the exclusive prerogative to give notice to INEC and to conduct party congresses and primaries. Any such notice given and congresses conducted by any State Executive as purportedly done in this case is null and void.<\/div>\n
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“As party members who love and cherish our great party it is also our duty to lend our voice and contribute towards steering it out of a potentially calamitous journey which will likely lead Abia PDP to have NO candidates in the 2023 elections.<\/div>\n
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“We therefore urge the NWC of our great party to use only statutory delegates for the forthcoming primaries to avoid a looming disaster for all our aspirants at all levels in Abia State.<\/div>\n
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“While doing this we also wish to let the NWC know that we have also heard of plans to doctor the authentic Statutory Delegate list.<\/div>\n
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“We know who the statutory delegates are and have therefore as a matter of urgency applied for the Certified True Copy of the list from the Nationa Organizing Secretary of the party and from INEC.”<\/div>\n
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Among the aspirants who were present at the national secretariat include,\u00a0Ude Oko Chukwu, the state Deputy Governor,\u00a0Senator Emma Nwaka,\u00a0Engr Enyinna Nwafor,\u00a0Dr Chima Anyaso and\u00a0Dr Sampson Oriji amongst other party chieftains.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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