Former Anambra State governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2021 election, Valantine Ozigbo, has withrawn from the party’s Senatorial primary election.
Ozigbo, an aspirant for the Anambra South Senatorial zone pulled out of the contest accusing other aspirants of hijacking the panel and result sheets for the election.
“True to form, Chris Uba succeeded in hijacking the process. He was seated at the stage, right beside the panel as the kangaroo exercise was being conducted. The panel chairman and members, firmly under Uba’s control, openly taking directives from Uba”.
“The actions of Chris Uba and Linus Ukachukwu, with the support of Uche Ekwunife, Stella Oduah, and a few others are the reasons PDP in Anambra may end up fielding no candidates in the 2023 elections,” he said.
In a nine page letter addressed to the Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, Ozigbo specifically accused Chris Uba in upturning the whole process in what what he described as ‘Kangaroo Exercise’
Announcing his withdrawal, he said, “with this, I hereby, withdraw from the contest for the Senatorial seat for Anambra South.
“For posterity, may I say this: Evil comes in many colours. In PDP Anambra, its primary colour is Chris Uba. The secondary colours are in the National Working Committee of the Party that enabled him and his cohorts.
“We have for too long, lost sight of what’s important. We have as a party in Anambra State, focused on the ego and the power play that creates characters like Chris Uba in our midst.
“These fundamental problems cannot be addressed by genuflecting to the discredited nation that regards every long-standing member of the PDP as a leader or stakeholder. It is time we define what leadership means to us in the PDP”.
He accused the National Organizing secretary of the party, Umar Bature in aiding the whole irregularities.
He said, “Specifically, Captain Umar Bature (Rtd), PDP National Organising Secretary (NOS), is complicit in this dangerous and divisive approach to conducting the internal elections of our party”.
