Prince Ken Emeakayi has been elected the state chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State in a congress of the party held Saturday
evening, which was also very poorly attended.
The 26 member state executives, whose elections were
conducted had only that of the chairman announced by Mr Ike Abonyi the chairman
of the congress committee, leaving all wondering if the other positions were
not important.
Emeakayi who was the sole candidate for the chairmanship
position and said to have been chairman of thre party since the days of former
governor, Chinwoke Mbadinuju polled 958 votes, while nine of the votes cast
were voided as announced by the chairman of the 5-man congress committee, Mr Ike
Abonyi.
Visible signs that the members of the congress organizing committee
anticipated trouble as most members of the party expressed disenchantment with
the congress was the presence of armed security operatives with Tope Fasugba, a superintendent
of police leading the charge in maintaining peace.
The exercise was however rancor free, but most members of
the party insisted that the congress was illegally conducted with the party’s
national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh as the sole mastermind.
The disenchantment of the members of the party over the
congress may have further fuelled speculations that majority of the PDP
faithful were likely to join the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC within
weeks.
The indication was given last week by the governorship
candidate of the party during the last governorship election, Comrade Tony
Nwoye, while briefing reporters in Awka.
Nwoye and other major stakeholders in the state had called
on the party’s national working committee, NWC to shift the congress within
five days to give aspirants time to purchase forms as the publication fell
within the public holidays when banks were not working.
Furthermore, they said if their requests were not granted,
stakeholders would not hesitate to choose another option available to them.
It was gathered at the weekend that big shots in the state
PDP like Prince Arthur Eze, Senator Andy Uba, Sir Emeka Offor, Prof Chukwuma
Soludo among others, already had their one legs in APC waiting for their foot
soldiers to make the pronouncement.
Emeakayi who was hailed by some members of the party after
he was announced winner seemed to have gotten winds of the disenchantment of
members, leading to his not visibly celebrating his victory.
He refused to address members of the party when he was
handed the microphone by the chairman of the committee, Abonyi, and also
refused to speak to journalists, but rather sneaked out of the congress ground,
into his car and drove off, leaving party faithful in confusion over his
behavior despite his purported victory.
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