CRISIS ROCKS DELTA PDP OVER 2015 GUBER

Fresh crisis has rocked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, over the choice of its flagbearer in the 2015 gubernatorial election.
Already, the party’s state chairman, Peter Nwaoboshi and the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Ovuozorie Macaulay, are now at daggers drawn over the emergence of the flagbearer of the party in the 2015 governorship election.
Macaulay stirred the hornets’ nest recently when he denounced the existence of an agreement conceding the governorship ticket of the party to Delta North Senatorial District of the state, in the forthcoming election.
Macaulay said the race was open to all aspirants from the three senatorial districts of the state, adding that there was no time the stakeholders agreed to the zoning of the slot to a particular zone.
However, Nwaoboshi, who hails from Delta North, fired back, and asked Macaulay to shut up, insisting that it was the turn of his zone to produce the successor of the incumbent Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, in 2015.
Nwaoboshi said the SSG was “too inconsequential” when PDP was formed in 1998 to be aware of the political undercurrent within the party, adding that he was a neophyte in the administration of the ruling party in the state.
The PDP leader said he was holding his position in trust for the “Anioma people” (Delta North), and asked his kinsmen to be united to fight common enemies. Nwaoboshi and Macaulay as well as their supporters have been at each other’s throat in the past one week, a development which was threatening the peace of the party.
They had resorted into verbal attacks in the media to marshal their positions and win the sympathy of the party members across the three senatorial districts.
National Mirror learnt that individuals and groups, especially those of Anioma stock, loyal to Nwaoboshi have asked Macaulay to retract the statement credited to him and apologise to the Anioma ethic nationality, calling on Uduaghan to sack the SSG if he fails to resign.
The Izu Anioma in a statement issued on Tuesday by Brig.-Gen. Oshiaya Gideon Alabi Isama (rtd.) warned that Macaulay would face the wrath of Anioma people if he failed to disown the statement.
Similarly, the groups loyal to Macaulay have been asking Nwaoboshi to resign, for contravening his oath of office. They said Nwaoboshi had pitched tent with Delta North, adding that his position contravened his oath of office.
Source: National Mirror