2023: Fresh Headache for Atiku as Top Southeast PDP Stakeholders Reject Campaign List, Gives Reason

• The ambition of Atiku Abubakar is faced with a major backlash as the crisis in the opposition PDP worsens
• This time around, the stakeholders of the PDP in Imo state have rejected the campaign council list of the party's flagbearer, a few months before the 2023 general elections
• Meanwhile, the aggrieved stakeholders maintained they were not consulted before compiling the list while describing the list as fake

Stakeholders of the Imo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have disowned the membership list of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Council, in the state, alleging that the list was populated by fake names and as such unacceptable.

The aggrieved stakeholders noted that the National Working Committee of the party had directed that, for the Presidential Campaign Council to be constituted, the stakeholders of the party must widely be consulted and that the State Executive Committee should ratify the list.

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The aggrieved PDP stakeholders give reason

According to a report by The New Telegraph, former House of Assembly member for Okigwe Local Government, Hon. Ngozi Ogbu, on behalf of the stakeholders and elders, on Monday, November 14, said:

“We wish to use this medium to inform the party that the stakeholders of the Party in Imo State were invited to a stakeholders meeting to discuss the composition of the Presidential Campaign Council and Campaign Management Council but to our surprise, the Secretary of the Party, Nze Ray Emeana proceeded to read out a list of members of the Presidential Campaign Council and Management Committee Council."

Continuing he said:

“This led to serious disagreement as many of the stakeholders opposed the announcement of the list of members of the Presidential Campaign Council, describing the same as fake and as an imposition, as stakeholders were never consulted. “

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Ogbu further stressed:

“We must recognise that His Excellency Emeka Ihedioha is an aspirant for the position of Governorship of Imo State. There are so many other aspirants for that position. Therefore, it is untidy to impose him and his cronies on the party as leaders of the Presidential Campaign Council.”

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The presidential bid of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, has been laced with a series of controversies even from the inception of his declaration to contest for the presidency.

However, these are stale tales already glaring in the eyes of Nigerians and political enthusiasts in the build-up to the 2023 election.

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Voters in Zamfara are willing to throw their weight behind Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

This was the promise of Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari, the former governor of Zamfara to Tinubu during an APC rally on Sunday, November 13, in Talata Mafara town, Talata Mafara Local Government Area.

Yari also noted that the electorate will vote for the current governor, Bello Matawalle, who is running for a second term in office.

Source: Legit.ng