The primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to select her candidate in the November 6th Guber Election in Anambra state is marred with uncertainties as aspirants are announcing their withdrawal from the race for various reasons.
One of the aspirants, Barrister Emeka Etiaba (SAN) wrote the national Chairman of the party in a letter dated June 25, 2021 informing the party that he has withdrawn himself from participating in the gubernatorial primary of the party.
He cited the numerous internal turmoils bedeviling the party which includes manipulation of delegate list and the many lawsuits – numbering up to five. He cited them as part of the reason for his withdrawal from the exercise.
Similarly, a former member of the House of Representatives, Tony Nwoye has pulled out of the primary election.
Nwoye said he’s withdrawing from the race as a result of the actions of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party.
Nwoye’s statement reads: “We all have been witnesses to the disconcerting flurry of events in our party in the last 36 hours. Developments which should be of grave concern to every true democrat and believer in the inalienability of the rights of true party people to freely choose the party’s flag bearer in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in our beloved state, Anambra.
“On Thursday, I was still actively traversing the hinterland in my last minute consultations/mop-up with the duly elected ad hoc delegates of the party in the 326 electoral wards of Anambra, ahead of the primaries slated for Saturday, 26th June when I was jolted by the news of the party’s National Working Committee’s (NWC) release concerning the party’s primaries.
“In the NWC release, the entire ward level executives of our party, the L.G.A executives and State executives of our party (who, by our edicts are bona fide statutory delegates) and also the elected ad hoc delegates (3 from every ward), who emerged from the duly conducted delegate election of the party that held on 10th June, 2021 will no longer be voting in the primaries election. Instead, only a handful of automatic/super delegates whose names appeared in a made-up list will be deciding who flies the party’s flag at the Nov 6 governorship polls holding in the state.
