A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Samuel Anyanwu, has rubbished the National Convention held by the party in Ibadan, Oyo State, over the weekend.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Anyanwu described the recently concluded PDP convention as a jamboree.
He argued that the PDP did not meet the necessary requirements for a convention as several states were yet to hold their congresses.
Anyanwu added that the outcome from states which held their congresses successfully had not been communicated to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a faction of the PDP decided to hold the Ibadan convention.
“16 states had not even done their congresses; the entire South-East has not done their congress. All that happened yesterday [Saturday] was a jamboree.
“Even the ones done earlier have not been communicated to INEC,” Anyanwu said.
Citing the absence of several states from the Ibadan convention, he added that the convention is simply illegal.
“When I heard somebody yesterday at the convention, when they were celebrating, having their jamboree, saying that we must obey the rules of the party, I laughed,” he said.
Naijaonpoint reports that the Ibadan convention expelled some PDP chieftains, including Nyesom Wike, Ayo Fayose, and others and also produced Taminu Turaki as the new National Chairman of the party.
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