Crisis seems to be booming in People’s Democratic Party PDP as some aggrieved members of the Anambra state chapter are said to have abandoned the party’s Governorship flag-off in Onitsha to hold a parallel rally in Awka, Anambra state capital in rejection of Chief Oseloka Obaze as the party’s standard bearer for the November election.
The aggrieved members which had the mainstream of the party’s grassroots leaders from across the 326 electoral wards in the 21 local governments of the state, in their gathering at the Ekwueme Square, in Awka, gave the leadership of the Anambra state chapter of the PDP a five days ultimatum to withdraw the candidacy of Obaze and replace him with any of the other governorship aspirants else they support the candidate of another party.
The Awka parallel rally according to source were said to be chanting anti-Obaze songs insisting that he is still a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and cannot be imposed on the PDP as a flag bearer.
The factional leader of the Anambra state PDP Prince Ken Emeakayi while addressing the crowd said “Obaze is not a registered member of the PDP and cannot be the candidate of the party. Both Obaze and Obi are not of the PDP but APGA and as such cannot represent the PDP. Henry Oseloka Obaze is not a bonafide member of the PDP. He is not a registered member of the PDP. I am the PDP chairman in Anambra state and I have checked the register of all our members and his name is not there”.
Emeakayi in his speech described the process which led to the emergence of Obaze as flag-bearer as “undemocratic stance of the national leadership of the party said “We are the original members of the PDP and we cannot allow total outsiders to hijack our great party”.
