From Steve Oko, Umuahia
Senator Mao Ohuabunwa who represented Abia North senatorial district in the eight senate, has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state to avoid the mistake that consumed the All Progressive Congress, APC in both Rivers and Zamfara States in the 2019 elections.
The former Speaker, ECOWAS Parliament gave the advice weekend in his Arochukwu country home while addressing the Ward Chairmen, council executive members and some stakeholders of PDP over the leadership tussle rocking the party in the LGA.
Senator Ohuabunwa who said PDP in the council was not divided, however explained that the doctoring of the list of successful candidates who emerged at the party’s LGA congress had generated ill feelings among party faithful.
He strongly condemned the action which he said was perpetrated by some “chameleons” in the party, whose interest was to destroy PDP before formerly defecting to the other party they had been secretly working for.
Ohuabunwa said his love for PDP compelled him to speak out against the grave injustice which, according to him, is capable of consuming the entire PDP in the state.
He said that as a major stakeholder in the party, he could not afford to keep sealed lips over such obvious injustice, hence his resolve to caution PDP on the far reaching implications of the anomaly.
According to him the dubious adoption of some party officials who are not products of party congress portends grave danger for the party as some persons can institute legal action against the outcome of any activity conducted by such illegal officials.
This, he warned was the undoing of the APC in both Rivers and Zamfara States in the 2019 polls.
Recall that Hon Anthony Nwankwo emerged the PDP Chairman of the April 14 LGA congress but was later substituted with Sunday Okemini, an action that triggered a legal fireworks as the matter is now pending at the state high court Umuahia.
