Seven members of the Imo State People Democratic Party, PDP, Working Committee, have resigned from their positions and also withdrawal their memberships from the party.
The State’s party publicity secretary, Collins Opurozor, announced the resignation on Sunday at the party’s Secretariat in Owerri.
Opurozor said 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, State Treasurer and Chibuisi Obido, State Vice Chairman, Orlu Zone, have resigned from their positions and equally dumped the party.
According to him, their resignation follows the repeated mistreatment being meted on them by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, Samdaddy, the party’s Governorship candidate.
He further accused Anyanwu of having done damages to the party since his emergence as the party’s flag bearer for the Imo November 11th governorship election, adding that if by mistake he is allowed to govern Imo State, he will further destroy the State.
He said, “It is necessary we remind you that in the last three years, this Working Committee has built a very strong, formidable and enviable PDP in Imo State. To enable the Party to realise its promise of being a truly democratic entity, we envisioned the need to expand the internal democratic space by forming nearly five thousand chapters across all the polling units in the State. We took the Party to the people, and that made us the darling of the Imo people. We accomplished this task despite our lean resources as an opposition. No other political party has attained this feat in Nigeria.
“More so, we institutionalised the culture of accountability in party administration and demonstrated a readiness to govern and reform Imo.
“But, since Senator Anyanwu became the National Secretary of the Party, he has never relented in deploying the powers of his office to fight members of this Working Committee and intimidate even ordinary members of the Party. Endless strife, mindless wars and erosion of all democratic values and principles have now defined and defiled Imo PDP.
When Senator Anyanwu eventually succeeded at crowning himself the governorship candidate of the Party, he convened a meeting of all the LGA Youth Leaders at his residence in Owerri and confessed openly that he had lied to them about financial mismanagement in the Party by the State Working Committee.
“He also apologized to the State Youth Leader for the attacks and elimination attempts he had passed through because of the falsehoods which he (Samdadday) had propagated. He also recanted the lies and repeated the apologies during the only meeting he has had with us as members of the SWC since his emergence as a governorship candidate.
He said all the falsehoods peddled against us by him were a result of his fight for survival.
“All of us in the State Working Committee are reputable people who have made their marks in their various areas of endeavour.
“How could Senator Anyanwu destroy our reputation, and also destroy the Party we have built, simply because of his fight for individual survival? The implication is that if by mistake he is allowed to govern Imo State, he will further destroy our dear State if only that would guarantee his individual survival!