BY CHARLES KUMOLU

UMUAHIA—INDICATIONS have emerged that the alleged setting up of a 17-man selection committee to shop for a  successor to Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, in 2015, has pitched the governor against the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party.

It was gathered that  the committee is allegedly chaired by a kinsman of the governor and a former National Chairman of the PDP.

Sources told Vanguard that party members, who are not happy with the development, are considering petitioning the National Working Committee, NWC, and the Presidency on the premise that the move negated the new policy of the party to allow for primaries.

The committee, it was gathered, had run into stormy waters, as some members  rejected their membership on the basis that its goal had long been pre-determined.
Those who rejected the offer to serve in the committee, said the development would encourage god-fatherism in the state.