By Cajetan Mmuta
There was confusion on Sunday in Awka the Anambra State capital like the five-man panel of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Delegates Committee for the three-man ad-hoc delegates Congress canceled the exercise in the State.
No new date was fixed for the exercise.
The exercise was to be held on Saturday but was later shifted to Sunday by the Panel.
Members of the panel disclosed that they arrived late in the State.
The Panel with Jibrin Ahmed as the Chairman and Ogbonna Victor Okorie as the Secretary told the Party stakeholders on Sunday that the cancellation was due to their inability to provide the original result sheets for Congress.
Despite shifting the Congress to Sunday which they communicated to the stakeholders who assembled at the Party Secretariat at Udoka housing estate in Awka, the panel claimed to have left the result sheets in their hotel room, while they brought photocopies of the result sheets.
But angered by the claims of the Panel, the PDP stakeholders, engaged the panel members in a shouting match which led to holding them hostage in the process.
The Panel later yielded to the pressure from the stakeholders of the party and wrote a letter of cancellation of the Congress.
The letter was signed by Ahmed the Chairman and Okorie the Secretary as well as the other two members, excluding one of the members who ran away.
The letter was handed over to the Admin Secretary of the party with the photocopies of the result sheets for the 21 local government areas in the State and copied to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, the National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, and the State Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng.
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According to the letter, “We sincerely apologize for not conducting the congress which was to hold on Saturday but shifted to Sunday by us. This was as a result of our inability to provide the original copies of the Congress result sheets and we regret the inconveniences.”
It was gathered that one of the Committee members who was sent to pick the original result sheets from the hotel, ran away and abandoned the Chairman and three others at PDP Secretariat in Awka.
