It appears that the end to the lingering crisis rocking the Anambra Peoples Democratic Party is not yet insight as one of the major factions in the battle of control of the party hierachy in the state led by Dr Andy Uba, seems bent on shunning a stakeholders reconciliatory meeting called by the party‘s national leadership to resolve the matter in dispute.

This is coming just as the removed chairman of the Congress Committee, Chief Chuma Nwofor, has berated Chief Jim Nwobodo Monitoring Committee, accusing it of deepening the crisis in the state.

National chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor had summoned 35 top members of the party in the state, including Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Andy Uba, Senators Annie Okonkwo, Ikechukwu Obira and Joy Emordi, Chief Chris Uba, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, Hon. C.I.D Maduabum, Speaker Anayo Nnebe with 19 members of the state House of Assembly for a meeting in Abuja, billed for Monday, next week, in order to a way forward for the party in the state.

But the leader of the Uba’s faction of the party, Mr. Bright Nebedum, told newsmen in Awka yesterday that their faction would not attend the meeting because of the pending matters at the Court of Appeal, insiting that there is a stay-of-execution order already served on the national secretariat of PDP concerning the conduct of congress in the state, adding that unless the pending suit was vacated and all matter resolved, summoning of stakeholders meeting was inconsequential.
According to him, it would be subjudice on their own part to attend the meeting, insisting that party constitution was flaunted in the process through which his executive was dissolved and a new congress committee put in place.

Also in a statement yesterday, the former Chief Press Secretary to Uba during his 17-days governorship of Anambra State, confirmed that his boss would not attend the meeting which he described as a charade.

He said, “Following the avalanche of enquiries by well-meaning Nigerians on whether the Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, former governor Andy Uba, would attend the charade being contemplated by Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, I find it necessary to state as follows
“That there is a subsisting court order which abinitio restrained Ogbulafor from conducting fresh congresses in Anambra State PDP under any guise.

“That Ogbulafor, in defiance of the court order, and ostensibly to undermine Andy Uba as Anambra PDP Leader, appointed a congress committee for the state under the headship of Chief Chuma Nwofor, and this committee over the weekend purportedly conducted what they dubbed ward congresses for Anambra PDP only to cancel same.

“Being a respecter of the judicial process, Dr. Andy Uba would not wish to comment on the process or engage in any conduct, including attending any meeting that might jeopardize this process.“
Meanwhile, the former chairman of the Congress Committee, Chief Nwofor, has accused the Nwobodo’s Monitoring Committee of coming with hidden agenda which he said marred the ward congresses which, his co-mate had already perfected plan to conduct freely and fairly, adding that the coming into the scene of the Monitoring Team led by Chief Jim Nwobodo, distorted a lot of issues, given the lingering controversy that trailed the team’s reconciliation efforts under the Action Committee in the state/zone few months ago.

According to him, with more than fifteen (15) First Class hotels scattered all over Awka and environs, the team chose to sandwich themselves in the same hotel, the same floor and next to the rooms of an interested group in the Anambra State PDP project, adding that Chief Nwobodo and his group did the same thing during their reconciliation efforts in the state few months ago when he chose to stay at Queen’s Suite/Hotels, Awka which, he claimed, was a known base of a known interested group in the crisis.

Continuing, Uba’s Chief Secretary, said the committee’s act also gave them a credibility problems as other interested parties refused to go to that hotel to meet with them, adding that it took intervention of people for the team to move on thereby steering up many allegations thereafter.
Nwofor therefore called for the sanctioning of the secretary of the committee, Mr. Vita Abba for his roles during the exercise and the replacement of Nwobodo Monitoring Team with members of National Working Committee.