Ayu writes INEC, insists PDP cancelled all Ebonyi congresses

The Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu has advised the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) that the get together had cancelled all its congresses held in Ebonyi State.

Mr Ayu, in a letter to INEC, dated Might 31, 2022, defined that the congresses had been cancelled for violating the PDP’s pointers.

“That is to convey to your sort consideration that the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has cancelled the congresses in Ebonyi State which purportedly occurred on twenty eighth Might, 2022 for the State Home of Meeting, Home of Representatives and Senate,” Mr Ayu mentioned.

“The get together additionally cancelled the gubernatorial congress held on Might 29, 2022.

The congresses had been cancelled for violating the rules of the get together because the committee that purportedly performed them didn’t type the required quorum,” the nationwide chairman mentioned.

He mentioned the get together would inform the fee of the brand new date for the congresses.

The Nationwide Secretary of the get together, Samuel Anyanwu, additionally signed the letter.

PREMIUM TIMES reported {that a} faction of the PDP in Ebonyi State elected Ifeanyichukwu Odii as its governorship candidate for the 2023 basic election throughout a controversial major held on Sunday.

The train was held regardless of the place of the nationwide management of the get together which it had introduced earlier.

The nationwide spokesperson of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, mentioned in a press release on Sunday that the choice was made after intensive consultations and deliberation by the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) of the get together.

However in a counter assertion, shortly after, a factional chairman of the get together within the state, Silas Onu, denied that the get together’s primaries had been cancelled.

Mr Onu accused the PDP spokesperson of issuing the assertion with out authorisation from the get together’s NWC.

One other faction of the get together within the state led by Tochukwu Okorie, was mentioned to have distanced itself from the train, citing the cancellation by the nationwide management of the get together.

Background

The Ebonyi chapter of the PDP has been enmeshed in a management disaster currently. The disaster has pissed off efforts to conduct the three-man delegate election throughout wards within the state.

The disaster has additionally break up the get together into factions leading to postponement of congresses in varied wards and council areas of the state about thrice.

The postponements adopted a myriad of courtroom rulings sacking and reinstating factional leaderships of the get together within the state.

Messrs Onu and Okorie have been engaged in a battle for the management of the get together within the state, forward of the 2023 basic elections.