The winner of the parallel primary election
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Senator Andy Uba, was
sighted in the Asokoro District of Abuja on Wednesday, August 28, when he and
four other members of the party were supposed to appear before the PDP
disciplinary panel at the national secretariat of the party.
They were summoned to explain why they
organised a separate congress in the state last Saturday, August 24, where Uba
was elected as its governorship candidate for Anambra November 16 election. The
other four members are Uba's younger brother, Chris, and Ejike Oguebego, Benji Udepzor
and Tonia Nwankwu.
At the primary attended by the party
officials Mr. Tony Nwoye was elected as the party's candidate.
The erring party members were directed to
appear before the NWC by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, but none of them showed up at
time of this report.
Although there were speculations at the PDP
national secretariat that Uba had travelled outside country and therefor could
not appear before the NWC, the senator was sighted in Asokoro District in Abuja
on Wednesday afternoon. The attempts to contacts Uba have been unsuccessful so
far.
Meanwhile at the PDP national secretariat
Also on Wednesday, the National Chairman of
the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, presented a certificate of return to Nwoye, at a short
ceremony held at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja. Tukur said he
did not know the party’s flag-bearer until he emerged the winner at last
Saturday’s primary election:
“That is how it should be. If we do things
transparently, honestly and with commitment, PDP will always arrive at the
right thing. You have made us proud.”
He also said upon his assumption of office
as the national chairman and in line with President Goodluck Jonathan’s quest
for one-man-one vote, he had declared that a level-playing field would be
provided for every member of the PDP seeking elective offices while equity and
justice would begin to reign in the party.
Speaking to journalists after the ceremony,
Nwoye said his emergence was God’s design because he was never considered as
one of the top aspirants before the primary election. Nwoye, a former state
chairman of PDP in Anambra State and former President of National Association
of Nigerian Students, NANS, also explained that he did not labour much to
secure the ticket last Saturday as he did when he contested election into the
House of Representatives in 2011, though he was denied the right of taking his
seat in the House.
If elected, he added, he would empower the
suffering masses of Anambra State and ensure adequate security in the state so
that its indigenes would no longer take refuge in the neighbouring states of
Enugu and Delta.
It will be reminded, that the parallel
primaries took place on 24 August 2013. The PDP leadership disapproved the
primary held by the faction chaired by Ejike Oguebeogu and recognized by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), where Mr. Uba was elected as
its governorship candidate. After that, PDP summoned Uba to appear before a
disciplinary panel to "show cause why disciplinary action should not be
taken against them.”
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