BREAKING: PDP sued over Arochukwu state consituency primary * Plaintiff urges court to stop INEC from recognising any candidate * Alleges serving civil servants part of delegates

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BREAKING: PDP sued over Arochukwu state consituency primary

* Plaintiff urges court to stop INEC from recognising any candidate

* Alleges serving civil servants part of delegates

By Steve Oko

There appears to be no end in sight over the controversy trailing the conduct of Arochukwu state consituency Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election in Abia State as an aggrieved delegate, Chidindu Kalu, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia.

Kalu asked the court to mandate the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to recognise anybody as PDP’s flag bearer for the constituency, claiming that the party did not conduct any primaries in the constituency.

He is querying the purported emergence of a flag bearer when there was no primaries, claiming that delegates including himself and others who had gathered for the exercise waited in vain at the venue without sighting members of the electoral panel.

Kalu who said he was among the PDP delegates from Ututu Ward averred in his statement of claims that “there was no member of the electoral committee sighted at the venue of the primary election.”

He also claimed that in a peace meeting brokered by the Council Chairman for the eight aspirants, it was observed that three of the three-man adhoc delegates “are serving civil servants who should not vote in party election”.

Defendants in the suit marked FHC/UM/CS/89/2022, include the National Chairman of PDP, Iyorchia Ayu; INEC; the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Hon. Emeka Ejiogu; PDP among others.

He prayed the court to “order the defendants to conduct a primary election for Arochukwu state consituency because there was no primary election conducted therein on the 22nd day of May, 2022”.

The plaintiff further averred that a written report by the Electoral Committee confirmed that there was no primary election in the constituency.

A copy of the report sighted by our Correspondent read in part:” We report that there was no primary election in Arochukwu state consituency. We advise that the exercise be shifted to a neutral ground particularly Umuahia stadium”.

The report was signed by the Secretary of the committee, Mark Ogbonna; and two members – Onuoha Chilaka, and Prince Nwaigwe, while the Chairman, Ejiogu did not sign.

Meanwhile, the matter was slated for hearing on July 19 as the necessary parties were not served on time.

There have been protests in the constituency as aggrieved aspirants and their supporters have vowed to resist imposition.

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