PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES: PROF. IBE DISSOCIATES SELF FROM PARTY.

…threatens to seek redress

Chinwe Ugele, Umuahia.

The Prof Gregory Ibe’s campaign organisation has frowned at what it calls the disdainful antics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to attempt to accord credibility and authenticity to their recently held governorship primaries in Abia State by sneaking in the name of Prof Gregory Ibe among the list of contestants in the said election.

In a statement signed by organisation and made available to CSUNews, it wondered how a person who resigned his membership of a party will still be included as a participant in that party’s election meant only for registered members.

It further states thus “for avoidance of doubt, Prof Gregory Ibe formally resigned his membership of the PDP through a letter dated 30th March 2022 addressed to the Abia State Chairman of the Party, which was appropriately delivered and acknowledged by the Chairman of Achara Mbaugwu Ward 7 in Isuikwuato Local Government Area.”

It is also worthy to note that Prof. Ibe who had his expression of interest form picked by a group of friends on his behalf, after which he declared his intention to run for the office of the governor, neither filled out his form nor returned it to the party and did not also submit himself to be screened.

Consequently, even without leaving the PDP, could not have qualified for the said primary election. “One therefore wonders how the name of Prof Ibe, who since making the widely publicised declaration titled “Message of Hope and Direction” on Easter Sunday 17 April 2022, has since moved on with his bid to realize ‘A New Abia’ under the APGA platform would resurface in the result sheet of PDP governorship primaries but for the handiwork of mischief makers whose chief aim is to accord legitimacy and acceptability to a failed exercise through the ingenuity of name dropping also known in the Abia political lexicon as ‘gamjism.”

Otherwise what would make a highly monetized delegate who immensely benefitted from the now popular special financial allocation appropriated exclusively for that purpose forget so soon the person he had been ‘purchased’ to vote for and mistakenly freely donate votes to a non participant in the contest who did not ‘see’ him?”

He had since taken up membership with the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and thereafter joined the governorship race under the banner of the Party.

According to the team, “for the purpose of emphasis, Prof Gregory Ibe ceased to be a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on 30th March 2022 and subsequently couldn’t have participated in the party’s governorship primaries of 25th May 2022.

The leaders of PDP in Abia state are therefore enjoined to take steps to correct this misinformation failure of which will compel Prof Gregory Ibe’s Campaign Organization (GICO) to seek other legal means of redress.