From Fred Itua, Abuja ‎

Fresh trouble is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, as some aspirants have indicated that they will boycott the primary election of the party or step down over alleged plans to impose a candidate.
The Anambra PDP primary election is scheduled to hold today, Monday, August 28, amidst  growing concerns over the conduct of the delegates’ conference and alleged plans to impose a candidate by the PDP Governors’ Forum.
A credible source who spoke to Daily Sun, said that he and many other aspirants in the election have already planned to boycott it over alleged plans to impose Oseloka Obaze.
Obaze served as the Secretary to the State Government during the administration of Peter Obi on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and defected to the PDP three months ago.
This is even as another aspirant, Akolisa Ufodike has indicated that he was stepping down from the race.
Although he said that his decision to step down was not due to concerns from the delegates’ conference, he admitted that there were issues with the process.
Speaking to Daily Sun yesterday, the source disclosed that the party held a very rancorous meeting on Saturday in a bid to resolve concerns from the delegates’ conference.
Throwing more light on what transpired at the conference, the source said that all but one aspirant were disenfranchised by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike who is the Chief Returning Officer.
“The process was defective and wrong because Wike left the delegates conference at 2pm. Ifeanyi Uba raised concerns over the delegates’ conference and he was supported by all the aspirants including myself except for Obaze.
“We all protested and the protest had gone to the appeal panel, so why are they not looking at the appeal panel’s process? Why are they coming to contest election in spite of all that complaints?
“The meeting ended up in chaos and angry aspirants and stakeholders said that the imposition will amount to the death of PDP in Anambra.
“Monday’s outing will be full of fighting because many of the aspirants have vowed to boycott. The only aspirant that might likely come for the primary election is Obaze whom Peter and some incumbent PDP governors have imposed.
“Stakeholders like Linus Ukachukwu are vehement on not allowing the imposition. They insisted that they would not tolerate any imposition  by the National Working Committee or the Governors’ Forum,” the source added.
While addressing newsmen last week,Mr. Ukachukwu said he may be forced to withdraw support for the PDP if imposition was allowed to thrive.
Ukachukwu however said that he would not leave the party but would only wait for the schemes of the governors’ forum to fail and then PDP can continue.

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