Enugu Stakeholders Endorse Ugwuanyi as PDP Consensus Candidate for 2015 Governorship Race By Christopher Isiguzo Strong indications emerged Saturday that the emergence of the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Transport, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the consensus gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for next year’s election in Enugu state would go a long way in reducing the lingering political disagreement between Governor Sullivan Chime and members of the National Assembly. Stakeholders of the PDP caucus mainly drawn from Enugu North senatorial zone had last Friday night endorsed the candidacy of Ugwuanyi for the governorship election after a three-hour closed door meeting held at the instance of the governor at the Government House. At the end of the meeting, no fewer than 10 frontline governorship aspirants from Nsukka zone pulled out of the race preferring Ugwuanyi as the candidate with the capacity to unite the various feuding factions in the state. The aspirants who stepped down for Hon. Ugwuanyi include, chairman of the PDP in the state, Engr. Vita Abba, a former Deputy Governor of the state, Chief Okechukwu Itanyi, Senator Ayogu Eze, Hon. Pat Asadu, Prince Mathew Agu, Amb. Fidel Ayogu, Prof. Osita Ogbu, Chief Ikeje Asogwa, Prof. Simon Ortuanya and Dan Onyishi. This came as jubilations were said to have taken the centre stage in the Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal constituency where Ugwuanyi is presently representing as well as the remaining four council in Nsukka. The ruling party had zoned the governorship to Enugu North. ThisDay checks revealed that most of the stakeholders at the meeting did not oppose the emergence of the law maker as a consensus candidate, a development that would go a long way in reducing the enormous political tension that has been building up over who would pick the ticket of the party. The meeting was said to have been attended by at least 90 notable chieftains of the party including members of the party’s working committee, Board of Trustees, commissioners, national and state lawmakers, elders, council chairmen and their deputies from the zone. Some of them included former national chairman of PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, chairman of the senate committee on works, Senator Ayogu Eze, Chief Fidelis Okoro, Ambassador Fidel Ayogu, state PDP chairman, Chief Vita Abba, elder stateswoman and former member of the House of Representatives, Chief (Mrs.) Justina Eze, and chairman of the PDP in that zone, Chief Mike Ejinima.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:22:29 +0000
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