Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi, outrightly shunned the just concluded National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, where president Goodluck Jonathan was handed the presidential flag of the party.
Obasanjo’s absence was not a surprise to many because the ex-leader, who onced chaired the Board of Trustees of the party, in his recently released book entitled ‘My Watch’ alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan was not the right person to spearhead the affairs of the nation.
An excerpt from the controversial book quoted Obasanjo as saying that President Jonathan “is lacking in broad vision, knowledge, confidence, understanding, concentration, capacity, sense of security, courage, moral and ethical principles, character and passion to move the nation forward on a fast trajectory.”
Similarly, Ebonyi State governor, Elechi Martins failed to show up at the convention on the ground that he was ‘robbed’.
It was gathered that Elechi was said to be angry with the national leadership of the party for planning with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim and a former Governor of the state, Dr. Sam Egwu, to deny him the opportunity to choose his successor.
It was alleged that Anyim, Egwu with the connivance of Mu’azu succeeded in making Dave Umahi, the deputy governor, the PDP governorship candidate in 2015.
Elechi, however, wanted a former Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, as his successor.
Reports say that the governor was making plans to decamp to the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
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