May 08, (THEWILL) – The Publicity Secretary of Ebonyi State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Nwoba Chika, has denied there was a parrarell congress held on Saturday, May 7th in Ebonyi State.
Nwoba, who told newsmen in Abakaliki that the PDP in Ebonyi State was united, noted that the congress would rather make the party stronger.
According to him, the official drafted for the congress were duly accredited by the leadership of the party.
Nwoba said: “The local government coordinators for the three-man delegate election were around. They briefed party members at the party secretariat and they displayed the result sheets they came with and they left for the exercise.
“As I talk to you now, the exercise has been concluded and as I speak to you now, in few minutes from now, they must have concluded and send the outcome to the party.
“I am not aware that anybody distributed any material that is different from the ones displayed few hours ago. If anybody is in possession of any material before now, I may not be aware.
“They displayed the ones they came with and that is the most authentic one. They came with the material for each local government area. There are thirteen of them. Each person is to oversee a local government area.
“The state ad hoc committee interfaced with the party before releasing the materials for the congress. They wouldn’t have also released the result sheets to the local government ad hoc committee. They are together and we believe that at the end of the exercise, everybody will be pleased with the outcome.
“This is politics and we have thirteen governorship aspirant in PDP. It is not out of place to have some of them having issues with themselves. You are here and we have not recorded any problem.
“PDP is a united house in Ebonyi and so long it is politics, we will always have agreement and disagreement; alignment and realignment and at the end, we shall come together and produce only one governorship candidate and that will happen on the 23rd of this month.
Meanwhile, Sen. Obinna Ogba, one of the governorship aspirants on the PDP platform who briefed newsmen on the conduct of the ward congress, said that the exercise was successful.
“I believe strongly that the 3-man delegate congress will be credible and will be acceptable by everybody. In politics, if you have 99%, you have 90%, is as good as everybody has accepted it.
“The last one we had was cancelled because the Chairman of the that panel reported that he was under duress and collected the whole materials he came with and because of that, the national cancelled the whole members and reconstituted a new 5-man adhoc committee.
“The name of the Chairman of the new adhoc committee is Hon. Calistus Anyanwu. You have Emeka Nzekwe, Emeka Okeke and others as members.
“This is the third time the party wanted to conduct this exercise, but, today we thank God that it has finally held”, he said.
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