Count PDP out of Anambra supplementary poll —Nwoye

AWKA—THE governorship candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the
Anambra gubernatorial election, Mr. Tony
Nwoye said yesterday that his party will not be
part of the supplementary election in 211
polling units as scheduled by the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, for next
Saturday, November 30.
Briefing reporters in Awka, director-general of
Tony Nwoye Campaign Organisation, Prince
Osita Ezenwa said the national publicity
secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who
said PDP would participate in the
supplementary election, is on his own.
Ezenwa said: “We want to dispel and of course
reiterate our earlier stand that we are not part
of the November 30 supplementary
governorship election. We wonder when Olisa
Metuh, a national spokesman of the party
suddenly fell from the Olympian heights to be
the spokesman of our candidate without
consultation.
“We want to make it clear that since the
November 16 gubernatorial election, no
meeting had been held by any officer of the
party or National Working Committee, NWC, to
discuss whether the party or our candidate
should participate in the Saturday election or
not.
“Our candidate, Comrade Tony Nwoye, has said
it over and over, that he will not be part of it
and that if PDP participates in the said
election, it means giving credibility to an
illegal act.
“Metuh should realize the limit of his office.
He cannot continue putting words into the
mouth of the PDP candidate in the state.
“The position of our party is that we are not
going to be part of the election. Metuh is on
his own and what he is doing is at variance
with the views of the majority of the people of
Anambra State.”
Also speaking, the director of protocol of the
campaign organization, Mr. Ken Arinze said
PDP would pursue the matter legally to ensure
that justice was done.
He commended the National Chairman of the
party, Alhaji Bamanga, Tukur for standing
behind the PDP governorship candidate in the
November 16 election and urged PDP
supporters in the state to remain calm and stay
at home on Saturday during the supplementary
election by INEC.