PDP Splinter Group ‘N-PDP’ Emerges In Imo State

Hundreds of aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have constituted the New-People’s Democratic Party, N-PDP bloc in the main opposition party in Imo State.

The N-PDP was formed On Monday at Villa Garden Hotel, in Owerri – the state capital.

The faction in a statement claimed that “validly elected aspirants in the field that contested for House of Assembly and House of Representatives were fraudulently replaced at the Wadata House without recourse to due process.”

The group urged the national working committee of the party to resolve the crisis in the Imo state chapter on or before November 29, 2018.

N-PDP named Fabian Ihekweme as the state Chairman, while Jerry Ogoke was named Deputy chairman, Ifeanyi Oguzie as Secretary, Johnbosco Ben and Christigonus Okoro as the spokesperson and Organizing Secretary respectively. The legal adviser was given to Uche Igbokwe.

Giving further reasons for the emergence of the N-PDP, Ihekweme said: “How can it be explained that a major political party like the PDP could not return a single female gender out of a total of 42 elective positions that were offered to the party members and even the few women that emerged were brazenly removed at Abuja.

“The whole arrangement was aimed at shortchanging the rest of us, into rubber stamping his own emergence as the legitimate winner of the grossly manipulated and flawed process.

“Indeed what is being tagged as the gubernatorial primary election of PDP, in Imo state is, in fact, a ruse and an imposition that is totally unacceptable to the generality among the silent majority of party members.

“As electioneering campaigns are starting across the country in compliance to INEC, guidelines and timetable, there exist compelling reasons to hold our coalition in the beleaguered Imo PDP, together from further drifting to other political locations and it will be utterly irresponsible of us not to create an umbrella that would canopy our interest.

“We want to further sound it loud and clear that Imo state is neither a conquered territory nor a Buffa state where manifesting emperors transverse at will.

“It is the intention of N-PDP in the foregoing, to put the NWC of PDP on notice to immediately commence urgent actions to redress the very issues that brought about the crisis in the party on or before the 29th of November 2018 or be prepared to manage the consequences of a pandemic drift of over 200,000 members.

“Our continued loyalty to our party, the PDP is not in doubt as we move in search of an accommodating and all-inclusive solution to the building crisis.”