Crisis is rocking Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , which is likely to affect the governorship aspiration of Senator Samuel Anyanwu in the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state, following the resignation of seven members of the State Working Committee, on Sunday morning.
They also announced the withdrawal of their memberships from the party.
The aggrieved executives made the announcement during a press conference at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, the state capital.
Collins Opurozor, who used to be the state publicity secretary of the party, said that the candidate of the party for the November 11 governorship election in the state, Samuel Anyanwu, lacks what it takes to govern the state.
He announced that himself, the secretary of the party, Ray Emeana, the youth leader, Greg Nwadike, the deputy state chairman, Martin Ejiogu, the state woman leader, Maria Mbakwe, Josiah Eze, the state treasurer and Chibuisi Obido, the state vice chairman, Orlu Zone, have resigned from their positions and equally dumped the party.
He said that the PDP in Imo State has now been damaged beyond redemption by the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu and the Party is, at last, moving irreversibly to its terminus, even though they had established the culture of accountability in party administration and demonstrated a readiness to govern and reform Imo.
He accused Senator Anyanwu ,the National Secretary of the Party, of deploying the powers of his office to fight members of this Working Committee and intimidate ordinary members of the Party and his endless strife, mindless wars and erosion of all democratic values and principles have now defined and defiled Imo PDP.
He also stated that Senator Anyanwu destroyed their reputation, and the Party they have built, because of his fight for individual survival and if he is allowed to govern Imo State, he will further destroy their State if only that would guarantee his individual survival.
He stated that in view of the foregoing and many other shocking discoveries which will soon be made public, the undersigned members of the Imo State Working Committee of the PDP, have resolved to resign their various positions in the Party and dump the Party en masse.
He said their resignation will opened the floodgate of resignations and defections, and in the next couple of weeks, there will be only Senator Anyanwu left in the Party.
