With a few hours to the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, an internal crisis and a controversy over the selection of its three-member ad-hoc delegates for each ward is yet to be buried.
The delegates will vote at the primaries to nominate the party’s candidates for the 2023 general election.
The PDP ward congresses were scheduled to hold in the state on April 30 until they were cancelled due to a court order. Although they were re-scheduled for May 4 after the order was vacated, they failed to hold because of a public holiday on the day.
However, while some party members waited for a new date for the congresses, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and others allegedly wrote a list of ad-hoc delegates across the 184 wards of the state and sent it to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The governor is reportedly putting pressure on the NWC to use the list for the party’s primaries on Wednesday, May…
