{"id":95117,"date":"2022-05-19T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95117"},"modified":"2022-05-19T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:22:36","slug":"2023-stop-pandering-to-dictates-of-godfathers-in-anambra-metuh-warns-ayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-stop-pandering-to-dictates-of-godfathers-in-anambra-metuh-warns-ayu\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Stop\u00a0pandering to dictates of godfathers in Anambra,\u00a0Metuh warns Ayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1733281705398557758\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">More crises are rearing head in the South East Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the party\u2019s congresses as the former national publicity secretary of the party Olisa Metuh, has cautioned the national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, against pandering to the wishes and dictates of godfathers in Anambra State chapter of the party.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Metuh, who spoke after a meeting between some PDP stakeholders in Anambra and the National Working Committee, expressed hopes that Ayu would use the list of delegates duly elected by PDP members in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He alleged that the national leadership of the PDP had become reluctant in complying with a report submitted to the PDP by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Metuh also charged Ayu to comply with an existing judgement of court and use the list of delegates duly elected by PDP members in Anambra.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He identified former Anambra State governor and presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, as the leader of the PDP in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The\u00a0 crisis arising from election of delegates has become very rampant in many state chapters of the PDP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On Wednesday,\u00a0 Senate minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, and 10 other Abia State governorship aspirants openly rejected the list of delegates submitted to the national leadership of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The aspirants who took their protest to the national secretariat noted that &#8220;at the centre of the vexed issues is the obvious manipulation by a tiny segment of the State Executive Committee of the party to yield to plots at subverting the democratic process, which is geared towards achieving a predetermined goal of imposition at all levels.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reading a prepared document signed by all the aspirants, Abaribe said:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We are therefore here in our party&#8217;s Abuja National headquarters to alert the party and the Nigerian public of this ugly development, which if not stopped could spell doom for the party ahead of the 2023 general election not only in Abia State but in the South East as a whole.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In Imo State, both Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and a Federal High Court have rejected a delegate list provided by the party while instructing that only statutory delegate list will be honoured.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More crises are rearing head in the South East Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the party\u2019s congresses as the former national publicity secretary of the party Olisa Metuh, has cautioned&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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