Despite the media frenzy that heralded the acclaimed inroads made
by the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP into Ebonyi State prior to the
2007 general elections, the people of the state remained unmoved in their
choice of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the main elections.
However, confidence of a repeat
rebuff by the PDP to the opposition in the days leading to the 2015 general
elections are increasingly rising even among top leaders of the party in the
state.
Even the governor according to one
of his close aides is not sure of voting the party. Governor Martins Elechi the
aide told some newsmen has already directed his supporters to move over to
Labour Party where many of the governor’s associates are hoping to actualise
their electoral hopes in 2015.
Such threats to the once impregnable
fotress of the PDP in some of its strongholds are raising concern across the
polity. In Akwa Ibom, Abia, Rivers, Oyo, Ogun among others, the PDP is driven
in crisis that even as at yesterday a definitive mention of the party’s flag
bearers in some of the states could not be made. Where the party establishment
has thrown up names as in Akwa Ibom and Abia the choices thrown up are strongly
being rejected by significant stakeholders that entering into the election in
the present condition could imperil the party’s chances in the forthcoming
election.
22 of the 23 governorship aspirants
of the party in Akwa Ibom who have jointly taken a position against what they
allege as the crooked procedure that led to the emergence of Mr. Udom Emmanuel
as the party candidate have now threatened to defect to the All Progressives
Congress, APC. A last minute meeting with Governor Godswill Akpabio last
weekend did not yield fruit as the aspirants stuck to their demand for the
substitution of Emmanuel, who in any case emerged from the zone as stipulated
by the party.
Source: www.vanguardng.com
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