APGA in trouble as Uzodike emerges PDP state Secretary , Obi in London

www.odogwublog.com reports that if it is true that former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism under the Peter Obi administration, Chief JoeMartins Uzodike, has emerged as the Secretary of the   Anambra PDP Chairman, then the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is in trouble.
Uzodike served as the Special Adviser to Governor Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was his Campaign Director-General in the November 2013, governorship election that saw Governor Willie Obiano in office as Governor.

He is to work with Prince Ken Emeakayi who was returned unopposed as the new Chairman of the party in the State , through a court perpetual injunction zoning the Chairmanship of PDP in Anambra state to Anambra South senatorial zone excluding Anambra North and Central to the position of chairman.
Although a Kangoroo court order the Party leadership obeyed it and Emeakayi emerged excluding the efforts of the elders and PDP governorship candidate in last election , Comrade Tony Nwoye for a free and fair contest.

www.odogwublog.com recalls that the Returning Officer of the Anambra State PDP Congress, Ike Abonyi, a veteran journalist had  announced  Emeakayi  as an unopposed winner for the chairmanship position while Mr. Nzube  James Etoniru  was elected as the Secretary.

But after that the party leadership that had intended Chief Uzodike would win chairmanship were not pacified that Uzodike did not contest and was not even at the venue of the congress, yet all members of PDP from North and Central throw their support on him and begged him to accept to be the Secretary of the party since it is the next in authority as they preferred him chairman which was void because of court order.

Although pundits referenced former Governor Peter Obi as being behind emergence of Emeakayi and Uzodike but checks by www.odogwublog.com points otherwise as Obi attended a meeting at Senator Uche Ekwunife’s residence where the party chairmanship was zoned to Anambra central.

And during the congress, Obi traveled outside the country and still there while Uzodike was never at the congress venue and never contested for any because they were against the zoning formula based on court order by Emeakayi. Obi was shocked to hear he was being mentioned but insisted his interest in the PDP is for the right things to be done rightly too as any candidate who emerged through due process would serve the party and not him. He insisted peace and unity of purpose is what is needed for PDP to take its rightful position.

Emeakayi had secured a total of 958 votes to emerge victorious  in the State Congress of the Party held at Emmaus House, Awka Saturday, July 23, this year.
The State Congress monitored by Godfrey Nsofor from INEC’s  Elections and Party Monitoring unit  was organized to elect State Executives for the party after the national leadership sacked all the factions contending for leadership in the Stare, including the Emeakayi and Ejike Oguenego factions.
In the stead, the National Working Committee of the PDP had set up a Caretaker Committee to run the affairs of the party preparatory to the 2015 general elections.

Aside Emeakayi, others winners were   Mr. Emeka Nzekwe – Publicity Secretary (Anambra East), Prince Eddy Okosi (Youth Leader (Onitsha North), Wilson Anakwe –  Treasurer ((Awka South), Sa-Ben  Nwosu –  Organizing Secretary (Nnewi North), Afam Akonnaya – Legal Adviser (Njikoka).
The  post of the Financial Secretary was  contested by Mr. Ekedozie  and Egwuoyibo Okoye both from Nnewi South LGA as well as the post of Women Leader  vied by Mrs Grace Okeke and Ego Afuegbu, both from  Dunukofia LGA.

The victory of the immediate past Chairman of the Anambra State PDP, Emeakayi, it was learnt, has not gone down well with other chieftains of the party, some of who shunned the State Congress.
Among those who did not participate in the Congress include the former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme; Senator Onyeabo Obi, member PDP Board of Trustees;  Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary, although Emeakayi is Metuh’s candidate following a charge against him he has allegedly; Iyom Josephine Anenih, member of BOT; serving Senators, Andy Uba, Uche Ekwunife and Stella Oduah.

Also among the delegates who absented themselves from the exercise and current members  House of Representatives on the platform of  PDP, included ,  Chukwuka Onyema, Linda Ikpeazu,  Eucharia Azodo, Sopuluchukwu Onwuka, and Emeka Anohu as well as three PDP  members of the State House of Assembly.
A total of 968 delegates from the 21 local government areas  were accredited  to vote in contestants who vied for 26 positions.

Adapted from previous report