By the end of yesterday, the actual division in the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State had come clear and beyond doubt.
In an exclusive chat with the Daily Sun yesterday, a serving senator disclosed emphatically that the party leaders and stakeholders resolved on Sunday night after a long meeting that the party members who were actually over 90 had resolved to decamp to the APC.
According to the senator: “Last night (Sunday) we agreed after a long deliberation that the only way out of the bad situation is that we will leave the party for the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
“We had before now done everything possible to make sure the matter doesn’t get to this point, but since the First Lady insists that the deputy governor, Chief Dave Umahi must be the gubernatorial candidate of the party at all costs, then, they should have their party, while we have our alternative in the APC.”
The development was actually an outcome of the insistence of the party leadership at the national level to accept that the result of the House of Assembly that never held was acceptable to them.
In a chat with Dr. Onyekachi Eni, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor, Martin Elechi, he noted that the announced reconciliation move by the party national leadership sounds vacuous and meaningless.
“The National Working Committee (NWC) while announcing that three PDP governors had been inaugurated into a reconciliation body, also said it accepted the results of a primary election that never held. That means it’s already deciding a matter before hearing it.
“If they really want reconciliation, then the question of accepting what it called the result of an exercise that never took place is clearly taking sides. So, what are we reconciling again when the NWC has aligned with fallacy in the matter.”
Daily Sun findings is that the leadership of the PDP in the state had got information of the NWC stand as at Sunday night and noted that the party leadership was already biased against what they called the popular position of the party in the state.
“Since the First Lady and Senator Anyim feel they have the right to decide for us and impose Umahi on us against our wish, we have also decided to leave the party and go to a place where we would be allowed to exercise democratic rights of the majority having their way,” the senator noted. The Sun
