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ANGRY reactions have continued to trail the recent dissolution and subsequent appointment of a caretaker committee to superintend over the affairs of Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by the National Headquarters of the Party.
OWERRI - ANGRY reactions have continued to trail the recent dissolution and subsequent appointment of a caretaker committee to superintend over the affairs of Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by the National Headquarters of the Party.
Addressing a gathering of the party loyalists from the 27 local government areas of the state, at the "Redemption 98" campaign headquarters, Owerri, the acting state Chairman of the party, Dr. Edwin Anyanwu, lambasted the National Working Committee (NWC) for creating crisis in a crisis free branch.
"The palpable crisis currently being experienced in the party today stemmed from blackmail initiated and executed by some of our brothers and sisters. Our state leader remains Governor Achike Udenwa and there is no running away from this fact," Anyanwu said.
Continuing, the state officer insisted that the party's constitution has no provision for the installation of a caretaker committee and all peace loving and party loyalists should resist it.
"The PDP constitution has no provision for the installation of a caretaker committee. All lovers of the party should read the letters and spirit of the constitution properly, with a view to resisting any extraneous injections into it or misinterpretation and misapplication of the constitution", Anyanwu pleaded.
While accusing some Imo sons and daughters of being responsible for the current crisis in the state, Anyanwu also expressed the belief that the National Chairman of the PDP would reverse himself when eventually he gets at the truth of the matter.
Speaking also, the Chairman of Mbaitoli local government area of the state, Chief Osita Opara, said Imo PDP stakeholders have taken a stand on the current crisis and there was no going back from it.
"Stakeholders of Imo PDP have since taken a stand. It is unambiguous and self-explanatory. Abuja is not in a position to dictate for us about who should lead us in this state," Opara fumed.
He insisted that Article 18 of the party's constitution has no provision for caretaker committees, stressing that the ideal thing would have been for the national headquarters of the party to refer any case to the state executive for adjudication and come only when solution becomes impossible.
"It is most undemocratic for the national secretariat to come from nowhere to summarily dismiss a properly elected and constituted state executive," Opara said.
In his own remarks, the member representing Ideato South local government area in Imo State House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Ezeala, said, "until and unless there is a state congress, the state executive council remains intact."