Why PDP May Lose Anambra

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may lose Anambra State in the 2015 general election, if the lingering crisis within the state chapter of the party is not quickly resolved, some stakeholders and members have noted.

Vanguard reports that, stakeholders and members of Emma Nwaeze-led faction of the party, on Thursday called on the national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, to immediately intervene in the long drawn crisis and settle it once and for all.

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The group’s spokesman, Chukwudi Okasie, who made the call in Awka, urged the party national leadership to dissolve the state current executive on October 24, 2014, when its tenure is expected to expire.

Okasie, therefore threatened that, they would go to court if a factional chairman, in the person of Chief Ken Emeakayi, continued to parade himself as the state chairman after the aforementioned date elapse.

“The PDP is in confusion because we have two factions and based on this in the 2015 general elections, the PDP has less than 50 per cent chances of winning the state. We were elected under the Emma Nwaeze executive which Emeakayi served as a vice chairman before he arrogated to himself the chairmanship of the party” he said.

The spokesman, who stated that there tenure would expire on Ocober 24, 2014, said they expect the national leadership to set up a caretaker committee before a proper congress could be conducted.

The group accused Emeakayi of anti-party activities, after working against the PDP governorship candidate, Tony Nwoye, in the last governorship election.

The spokesman warned that if Emeakayi, was not stopped in his present court matter aimed at elongating the tenure of the out-going executive, the party would again be compromised in the general elections.

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“We are equally calling on the reconciliation committee chairman, Alhaji Amadu Ali, to investigate the matter and invite us to round table reconciliation,” Okasie said.

It would be recalled that Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has fixed September 29, 2014, to unanimously decide on their support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition in the 2015 presidential election.

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Catholic Bishops and Nigerians as a whole that his administration is commitment to ensure that a free and fair elections  hold all over the country.