By Dayo Benson, Vincent Ujumadu & Umar Yusuf
As controversy trails the choice of Professor Chukwuma Soludo as Anambra State governorship candidate, party national chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, insisted weekend that the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor remained PDP candidate.
Ogbulafor’s insistence came on the heels of Anambra PDP political godfather Chief Chris Uba’s comment that nobody could frustrate him out of PDP. Uba spoke while denying report that he had dumped PDP for Peoples Progressive Alliance PPA, just as PPA governorship candidate in the state, Mr.Uche Ekwunife, also dismissed insinuations that she was Uba’s candidate
Ugbolafor told correspondents at the Yola Airport that the Nigeria Court cannot determine for the PDP who becomes their candidate.
“In the Anambra case, we have done all that is possible to bring the aspirants to a round table conference, but to no avail. Even if we give them 2 years to produce a governorship candidate through consensus, we discovered that it is impossible to achieve that.
The National Working Committee and the Board of Trustee of the PDP looked into its constitution and used article 17 (1) to pick a candidate,” the National Chairman declared.
He said it was the only option left for the party to get off the political quagmire in Anambra State, adding that no Court can determine for the PDP who becomes their candidate, because it is not the duty of the court.
Asked why the PDP is characterised by deep crisis under his tenure, the National Chairman stated that politics is all about conflicts and resolution, adding that if there is conflict anywhere, the duty of the National Working Committee is to resolve the conflict not to inflate it in order to give the executive enabling environment to perform.
He disclosed that tremendous efforts were been put in place to resolve all the crisis within the party at all levels of governance in the country.
The PDP National Chairman added that it was the same conflict resolution mission that the (NWC) of the party was returning from Taraba State, adding that in the course of resolving the conflict in Taraba, PDP received thousands of decampees from the ANPP, Action Congress, AC and other major parties.
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I think the major problem facing my beloved state is the issue of godfather ism. I really thank God for making it possible for PDP and the people of Anambra to have Prof. Soludo as there flag bearer coz he knows the problem of my beloved state and how to tackle it. Secondly he can not tor orate from chris uba and his cohort in terms of godfather ism.Finally I think OBJ also contributed to the problems we encounter here in Anambra state during his tenure.
I believe political parties should be democratic in selecting their candidates. This has not happened in Anambra PDP. So even if Soludo wins the governorship elections next year, it is likely he will be thrown out by a law court. The foundation is already faulty from the start
God, please help Anambra to get rid of the likes of Chris Uba, this illiterate man always set the state some yrs back
The problem of the average Nigerian is Chris Uba.An illiterate who never passed WAEC Exams holds Anambra people to ransome.See what Obasanjo and PDP have to this generation.I weep for this nation.