Enugu state deputy governor, Mr Ifeanyi Ossai, Saturday, assured members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state of a credible, fair and transparent state congress.
Ossai, who is the Congress Committee Chairman for Anambra state, stated this at stakeholders meeting held in Awka, the state capital, shortly after postponing the congress earlier scheduled Saturday, October 19 to elect state officers of the party.
The deputy governor, represented by the Committee’s Secretary, Mr Ndubuisi Eneh, and other members, explained that the team postponed the congress due to logistics and other challenges, but currently meeting with all stakeholders so as to ensure that the congress holds on Wednesday October 23 or Thursday October 24, 2024 without rancour or crisis before, during or after the exercise.
According to him, the committee would not only work with the delegate lists upheld by the Appeal Court and certified by the National body of the party but had also deviced means of ensuring that only the authentic delegates would be allowed access to the congress venue.
Also speaking, two aspirants for the office of state Chairman of PDP, Hon. Chidi Chidebe and Hon. Amechi Onowu demanded for a level playing ground for all the contestants, which according to them would make it possible for eventual winners to work together with those that lost out in order to reposition the party in the state.
The state acting chairman of PDP, Engr Chigozie Igwe, the immediate past Chairman of the party, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu, and former Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Josephine Anenih, charged the congress committee to shun all kinds of inducements by conducting a free and fair state congress that would stabilise the party for Anambra state 2025 gubernatorial poll and beyond.