Some members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State on Tuesday stormed the secretariat of the party in Umuahia to protest against what they called alleged moves by the State Chairman of the party, Allwell Asiforo to impose adhoc delegates on them ahead of the party’s primaries for the 2023 general elections.
The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions, such as, “Asiforo working for the opposition; Abia PDP a shadow of itself under Asiforo; Asiforo wants to kill PDP; we hate imposition; imposition will not do us any good,” among others.
A member of the PDP who refused to be named told THE WHISPERER that Asiforo’s body language was favouring a certain governoship aspirant from Abia Central Senatorial district.
The source said, “Asiforo is doing everything possible to manipulate the process in favour of Prof. Uchenna Eleazar Ikonne to emerge as the governoship candidate of the party.
“PDP should forget about Abia State if Ikonne emerges as its candidate. We are ready to sabotage the party if they refuse to allow an Abia North person succeed Governor Okezie Ikpeazu,” he said.
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