Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday dismissed as unfounded, a reported plan to disqualify Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi from contesting the 2015 governorship election on its platform.
The party, in a statement signed by Dr. Okey Eze, its Enugu State Publicity Secretary said the report was a handiwork of mischief makers.
The Enugu PDP, in the statement, said its attention has been drawn to “the false and mischievous campaign of calumny in the national dailies against the candidature of Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi by known bad bed followers who have lost touch with the reality on ground and have resorted to blackmail and untoward acts in the media in a failed attempt to mislead the public and discredit the party’s choice.
“This reaction has become necessary in view of the false rumours being peddled in the national dailies that our consensus candidate for the 2015 governorship election in the State, Hon Ugwuanyi ‘may not be cleared’ by the National leadership of our Party for his alleged role in the emergence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal.
“Ordinarily, the State Chapter of the Party would have wished to ignore the antics of these unfaithful party members, knowing full well their political antecedents since the dark days of the past PDP administration, and their penchant for blackmail and mischief, usually when they are not favoured in a contest, but since their inordinate acts are capable of misinforming the public, and biasing the minds of undiscerning members of our Party, the need to react has become imperative.
“The State Chapter of our Party wishes to state clearly that the said media publications do not in any form reflect the true position of the National Leadership of our Party. Rather the publications are the handiwork of mischief makers who because of their unpopularity in the Party lost out in the democratic process that led to the emergence of our Party’s consensus candidate”.
The party added that, “it is common knowledge that the National Leadership of our Party has always encouraged the emergence of popular candidates as the surest and easiest way for the Party to win elections.
“The Party in its wisdom has since the emergence of the Alhaji Dr. Adamu Mu’asu- led National Leadership established a new order of reform programmes through national rebirth and reconciliation, political integration and an enduring electoral process that would guarantee free and fair primaries of the party and as well give every member of the Party an equal opportunity to vote or be voted for in all elections.
“It is therefore mischievous to allege in the national dailies that the Party leadership under the watch of the National Chairman would align itself to such an act of victimization over an unfounded allegation being anchored by bad losers in our Party in Enugu State.
“Hon. Ugwuanyi’s credibility in the National Assembly and his contributions as one of the stabilizing members of the Party in the House of Representatives are overwhelming as has been testified by many members of the House including the House Leader, Hon. Mulikat Akande.
“It is also spurious to refer to Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as an anointed candidate of the Governor of Enugu State, when he was unanimously adopted by all the caucuses of the Party in the State through a democratic process. Let it be on record once more, that Hon. Ugwuanyi’s emergence does not in any form foreclose the forthcoming PDP Governorship primary election in Enugu State or chances of other aspirants to participate in the exercise.
“We therefore, advise those who are opposed to Hon. Ugwuanyi’s emergence to make themselves available for the primaries, rather than engaging in all sorts of blackmail, falsehood and anti-party activities aimed at misleading the public and overheating the entire polity for their selfish agenda”.
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