Following the appalling performance of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, in the last Saturday’s November 11,2023 governorship election, where he finished a distance second, the Imo PDP Critical Stakeholders has seriously questioned why the party failed in the polls.
The group demanded to know how Senator Anyanwu prosecuted the last election that virtually all the leaders in the various layers of PDP were left out before and during the electioneering.
In its enquiry, the stakeholders asked questions about the disbursement of funds, including the money generated for him from the PDP Governors Forum as well as the national body in Abuja. The group begged to understand in real fact if those funds were made available to him or not. If they got to him, were they disbursed?
Moments before last Saturday’s election, there were founded insinuations that Anyanwu met with Governor Hope Uzodimma on an alleged deal against Imo State PDP. Going into the election, there were allegations that the former national secretary of the party entered into an unholy alliance with both Uzodimma and APC.
Since 1999, this is the first time the PDP in Imo State would be finishing a distant second in a governorship with just 71,000 votes and above, when the winner of the election ran home with over 500,000 votes and above. Between 1999 and 2011, PDP effectively won governorship elections in the state easily. Even when the party never won the elections, the PDP battled whichever party that carried the day, to the extent that in 2015, there was a supplementary election to decide the winner between then Governor Rochas Okorocha and deputy speaker Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha.
Things are now very bad for the PDP under the watch of Samdaddy that its governorship candidate and his deputy running mate, Dr Jones Onyerieri, lost their respective Local Government Areas and the Imo PDP Critical Stakeholders are very much worried about the colossal failure of the party. To the stakeholders, the failure of both men in their local councils smacks of leadership failure.
The Imo PDP Critical Stakeholders therefore called for an investigation into the abysmal performance of Samdaddy in the last Saturday’s governorship election just as the group maintained that the results clearly demonstrated that Senator Anyanwu was planted to destroy the party in favour of Uzodimma and APC.
