PDP Cancels Oyo, C- River, Lagos Congresses

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday bowed to pressure following complaints from some elders, stakeholders, and leaders of the party and cancelled the ward congresses earlier conducted in Lagos, Cross River and Oyo states.

Confirming the cancellation to Vanguard, yesterday, the party's National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, explained that it became imperative to conduct fresh congresses in the three states because they were not well conducted. Following complaints arising, the PDP also on November 8 conducted the local government congresses from the 774 local government councils for the nomination of national delegates to the National Convention slated for December 10/11.
Since the conduct of the congresses, aggrieved members, including governors, stakeholders and leaders have besieged the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party, with series of complaints of either being short-changed or cases of delegate lists being doctored to favour some against others. Different factions of PDP came up and openly disputed the outcome of the congresses as announced by the various electoral officers assigned to conduct the exercise in some states. However, few other states were without controversies. In Oyo State, the three leading governorship aspirants laid claim to victory, just as the leading aspirants, former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, Senator Teslim Folarin and Mr Seyi Makinde all claimed to have won the congress. In Cross River State, the fight is between the Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, his group and that of Hon. John Owan Enoh and his supporters.
Source : The Vanguard (with slight review)
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