Thursday, 13 November 2014

PDP congresses: You are starving us of funds, lawmakers accuse presidency

The meeting with the president is upon protests from PDP stakeholders, mostly members of the National Assembly that PDP incumbent governors manipulated the ward congresses to their favour and against the interest of the legislators.

Exception to the influence of the governors was the development in Cross River and Enugu States, where the governors were said to be under pressure. Governor Liyel Imoke was at the national secretariat of the PDP with key political associates yesterday to lodge a complaint over the alleged manipulation of the delegates list which was allegedly doctored after the congress in Abuja.

It was learnt that the outcome of the delegate election in Cross River State was doctored in a way that put the governor at a disadvantage, a development that forced Imoke to meet with key party officials at the national secretariat.

Governor Sullivan Chime on his part had himself been embedded in the federal capital after those aligned with him stayed away from the ward congresses conducted by the David Aja-led state executive of the party in the state. Mr. Chime who met with key stakeholders on Tuesday night, it was learnt, was mounting pressure for the cancellation of the ward congresses but his efforts were as at press time not yielding fruits given the assertion by the party that he should channel his complaints through the appeals committee.

Protests against the congress were also said to be strong from party stakeholders in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States.

A source privy to the development said yesterday

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