•One other PDP BoT member resigns
Adibe Emenyonu in Benin Metropolis and Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia
Lower than per week after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), a former governor of Imo State, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, appeared to have initiated strikes to hitch the Labour Celebration (LP).
This suspicion, nevertheless, adopted his assembly with the Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, at his Nvosi nation house, on Sunday, for what pundits have described asexploratory talks earlier than pitching his tent with the LP.
This was as one other chieftain of the PDP in Edo State, and member of the occasion’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Mr. Charles Idahosa, has resigned his membership of the occasion.
Nonetheless, Ihedioha’s go to was made recognized yesterday when Otti’s workplace launched {a photograph} displaying him with the Abia governor throughout the go to.
Otti is the one LP governor in Nigeria.
A two paragraph launch that accompanied the {photograph} didn’t reveal the aim of Ihedioha’s go to however solely mentioned the Abia governor acquired his customer, “who was on a personal go to.
“After the welcome reception, Governor Otti and his customer retired right into a closed-door assembly,” the discharge mentioned.
Ihedioha is believed to be searching for a political platform after he resigned his membership of PDP on April 23, 2024, citing the best way the problem of the nationwide secretary of the occasion was resolved in favour of Samuel Anyanwu.
By getting his job again as PDP Nationwide Secretary after dropping the governorship ballot, the construction of the occasion in Imo has firmly been thrust into Anyanwu’s management thereby placing his rival, Ihedioha on a really weak footing in Imo PDP.
His resignation from the occasion, nevertheless, opened a floodgate of resignations by his loyalists, who have been occasion workplace holders from native authorities to nationwide stage.
It’s anticipated that these Imo PDP chieftains and their supporters would comply with Ihedioha into LP when he ultimately declares his new discovered occasion.
In the meantime, Idahosa, too, introduced his determination to give up the PDP in a letter addressed to the Chairman of Ehor Ward and I of the occasion in Uhunmwonde Native Authorities Space of Edo State and copied to the Chairman, BoT of the PDP, South South Nationwide Vice Chairman, the State Chairman and Uhunmwonde Native Authorities Chairman of the occasion.
“I belief this letter finds you effectively. I’m reaching out to formally announce my determination to resign from each the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) and my position as a member of the Board of Trustees (BOT).
“As a consultant of the South South Nigerian area, this determination comes after appreciable contemplation and reflection on my private and political journey.
“All through my tenure inside the Peoples Democratic Celebration, I’ve been privileged to contribute to its imaginative and prescient and mission. Nonetheless, after cautious consideration, I consider it’s time for me to pursue new paths and alternatives past the occasion’s confines.
“I want to categorical my honest gratitude to the PDP group for his or her unwavering help and camaraderie throughout my time of service. I stay dedicated to upholding the values and ideas which have guided my political engagement to this point.
“I sit up for new avenues of development and contribution, and I lengthen my finest needs to the Peoples Democratic Celebration because it continues its necessary work.”
Idahosa, a former native authorities chairman and political adviser to former governor Adams Oshiomhole, didn’t nevertheless point out his subsequent political transfer.