The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has said that the PDP in Imo State will survive despite the exit of the Former Governor, Emeka Ihedioha from the party.
Journalist101 recalls that Ihedioha resigned from the PDP on April 23rd, 2024. Many of his supporters in Imo state also announced their resignation from the party.
However, the PDP Chief Scribe speaking to journalists when he paid a courtesy visit to the former governor of old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo in Enugu on Thursday, said that they will weather the storm and come out stronger as a party.
He noted that “party is a vehicle and it’s a matter of choice. PDP is an organic organization. The former president of this country, Olusegun Obasanjo tore his card as a member of the PDP in a national television, the party never died; our last presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in 2015, left the party with seven Governors and PDP never died, and he later came back to the party. If you think you’re not comfortable where you’re and decide to go to another place, if you don’t find peace there, you’ll come back.
“As far as Imo state is concerned, the party shouldn’t revolve around one person. Party is an organization where everybody has right to come in and leave as he/she wants. So, it has nothing to do with the crisis. People are coming into the party in droves now, probably because they believe that the person that has been blocking them has left. If he has chosen to go to another political party to pursue his ambition, the party will wish him well, that’s how PDP operates.
Anyanwu maintained that the alleged crisis in the party isn’t enough for anyone to go because according to him, “no political party is immune from it. The ruling APC, Labour party and even the NNPP all have their own share of the trouble. As far as I’m concerned, PDP is the only party that has the mechanism of solving internal disputes and that we’ve put into action and I can assure you that we will come out stronger. People didn’t expect that we will come out of the last National Executive Council meeting unscathed and a lot of prophets of doom were disappointed as the NEC meeting went on very peacefully.
Commenting on the position of the party ahead of 2027, and if the party will zone their presidential ticket, he said “we’re searching for a credible candidate. I agree with you that we made mistake in the last election but that’s behind us but it’s not within my power to speak on what the party will do about zoning in the coming election.”
