The national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Samuel Anyanwu ( Samdaddy) on Monday alleged that some chieftains of the party in the state worked against the party in the state during the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections.
Samdaddy in a statement issued in Owerri, the state capital, by his spokesperson, Ikenna Onuoha, said that those who betrayed the party used the election funds released by the party to deliver candidates of the rival All Progressives Congress at the polls.
The PDP national secretary said that the aim of those he described as “saboteurs” was to ensure that the party goes into extinction in the state.
While calling on party faithful to remain calm, Samdaddy assured that the names of those who betrayed the party during the elections would be made public soon.
The statement read “national Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu expresses displeasure over the number of saboteurs surrounding the party in Imo state, adding that all their efforts are to see that PDP does not exist in the state.
“Anyanwu says that the primary objectives of these saboteurs during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections were to starve the party and its members of funds earlier approved and released as election intervention funds.
“He regrets that all entreaties, appeals and convictions to release the funds approved to appropriate authorities in line with the national template to enable them deliver candidates of our party was flagrantly ignored, noting that reason why these saboteurs carried out the broad daylight onslaught against the party was to frustrate PDP by ensuring that its candidates lose the election.
“According to him, after hijacking the election intervention funds released to the party in Imo state, some of the saboteurs turned back against candidates of PDP and played anti-party in order to justify the deal they had with leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The PDP National Scribe therefore calls on the party’s candidates and other aggrieved members who suffered the neglect and sheer betrayals in the hands of these saboteurs to remain calm, assuring that all legal means shall be utilized to bring those directly and indirectly involved to book.
“While assuring them of efforts to revive the party and make it more viable and formidable ahead of the November 11th, Governorship election, Anyanwu expresses optimism that those that betrayed PDP will soon be made public
