{"id":246101,"date":"2023-02-02T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=246101"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:08:54","slug":"why-fresh-pdp-primary-should-feature-only-previous-contenders-abia-guber-aspirant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/02\/02\/why-fresh-pdp-primary-should-feature-only-previous-contenders-abia-guber-aspirant\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fresh PDP primary should feature only previous contenders – Abia guber aspirant"},"content":{"rendered":"

A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lucky Igbokwe has stated that only previous contenders should be allowed to participate in its scheduled fresh primary.<\/p>\n

Recall that the PDP had scheduled a fresh governorship primary to hold\u00a0on February 4, following the death of Uchenna Ikonne, the party\u2019s governorship candidate in Abia state.<\/p>\n

A former vice-chancellor of Abia State University (ABSU), Ikonne died on January 25 at the National Hospital in Abuja on January 25.<\/p>\n

During the first primary, Ikonne had won the election<\/a> with 468 votes while Lucky Igbokwe came second with 45 counts.<\/p>\n

Igbokwe had alleged that there were irregularities in the fmprimaries, which caused the withdrawal of many aspirants from the party.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Wednesday, the governorship aspirant alleged that there are attempts within the party to impose a candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the death of the Abia PDP gubernatorial candidate, Prof. Eleazar Uche Ikonne, on January 25, 2022, and the subsequent directive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a fresh primary within 14 days to replace him, members of the Abia PDP state caucus met today and zoned the vacant guber seat to Isiala Ngwa north local government area, the home LGA of the late Prof. Uche Ikonne,\u201d Igbokwe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFestus Okoye the INEC<\/a> national commissioner and chairman information and voter education committee has stated that the election is still one month away, and the state\u2019s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has a window to conduct a fresh primary within 14 days of Ikonne\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to zone the governorship to the Isiala Ngwa LGA is wrong. All those who participated during the first primary must not be excluded from the party decision-making process on another primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe invested in the party and cannot just be ignored. PDP must create room for growth and not recruit unwilling horses who did not aspire to lead in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do not force a child who did not do well in the sciences to read medicine, otherwise he would flunk his exams. This is why Abia state has failed woefully and keeps failing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you want us to buy fresh forms for the same position we have been cleared and undergo another screening process. Why must it be left open for those who were not participants in the first primary?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy fellow Abians, let me explain. It can never be in the best interest of this state that has been pillaged and laundered to force upon us candidates who have not been vetted and tested as our potential flagbearers from whom one person will emerge to face the other party flag bearers already on the campaign trail for months now in this all- important governorship election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are candidates that have not undergone the rigorous processes of formal and informal scrutiny by stakeholders and members of this party in the 17 LGAs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill seven days be enough for this consultation and campaign by these new aspirants?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lucky Igbokwe has stated that only previous contenders should be allowed to participate in its scheduled fresh primary. 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