Anambra guber: Concerns over PDP aspirants’ inability to pick forms

APC okays indirect primary for selection of candidate
Concerns are mounting over the inability of prospective governorship candidates in the November 8 governorship election in Anambra State to procure the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) expression of interest and nomination forms for the election.

The party had recently placed an N40 million tag on the forms billed to elapse next week.

Last week, leaders of the party who gathered in Enugu for the zonal congress, where they peacefully returned the Ali Odefa-led executive, had expressed their determination to restore the PDP to the zone beginning with the Anambra State governorship election.

They noted that the unanimity in getting the delegates to agree to return the serving executive was an indication that the party was set for greater glory.

However, a few days before the end of the sale of forms, reports indicated that no aspirant had been able to purchase the forms.

It was gathered that the cost of the forms and the crisis in the party were making aspirants withdraw.

Other political parties such as the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Labour Party (LP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have become choice parties for governorship candidates in the state.

MEANWHILE, the APC has endorsed the indirect primary mode to select the candidate of the party.

APC’s National Secretary, Ajibola Bashiru, made this known at the end of the National Working Committee (NWC) meeting of the party held at its national headquarters, yesterday, in Abuja.

The APC scribe, who disclosed that the decision was in tandem with the position of the Anambra State chapter of the party, disclosed that the Abdullahi Ganduje-led NWC would meet with aspirants and stakeholders of the party on Tuesday next week to fine-tune modalities for the conduct of the primary. Bashiru also faulted the notion held in certain quarters that the party has endorsed one, out of the seven aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket.