Nwodo Promises To Return PDP To Its Original Plans

by our correspondent

National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Okwasilieze Nwodo has promised to return the party to the original plans of its founding fathers, also saying that he would put to an end all manipulations and impositions of godfathers.

He lamented that 50 years of the existence of the nation, the country was yet to get it right but quickly added it is good we are starting.
Nwodo who was speaking at the grand rally organized by Enugu State government in his honour pledged to restore internal democracy within PDP and resolve all lingering crisis within the party.

According to the him “I shall ensure that I use my office as national chairman to break the chains of impositions,
godfatherism, manipulations, intimidations and restore true leadership to PDP”.
“The party under my leadership will be returned to the original plans of the founding fathers, which is power to the people. The idea of godfatherism will be a thing of the past,” he promised.

President Goodluck Jonathan, was represented by the chairman of Goodluck support Group Hon. Ahmed Gulak praised the renewed unity among the South East politicians. He said, ''the president must hear of the unity in the south East and the testimony that Nigeria has crossed the state of political immaturity”.

The rally saw in attendance all the governors in the South East states irrespective of party affiliation, Sullivan chime of Enugu, Martin Elechi of Ebony State, lkedi Ohakim of Imo State, Theodora Orji of Abia State (APGA), and Peter Obi of Anambra State. (APGA).

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the application by the PDP governorship candidate in Abia, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, challenging its earlier decision in the Abia 2007 governorship poll.

The court had earlier upheld the April 14, 2007 election of Gov. Theodore Orji but Ugochukwu filed a motion praying the court to reverse its decision.

It had earlier set aside the Abia Election Tribunal's nullification of Gov. Orji's election on the ground that he belonged to a secret cult, the Okija Shrine.

Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Justice Suleiman Galadima, said the court had studied all the nine consolidated applications filed by the parties on their individual merits.
He observed that the court also considered all the prayers sought by the applicant alongside its earlier judgment delivered in 2009 in Port Harcourt.

Galadima said that the five-man jury critically studied all the submissions made by counsel to all the parties in the case.
The court dismissed all the applications for lack of merit and substantial evidence.

In his reaction, counsel to the applicant, Chief Mike Ahamba, said that he and his client were disappointed but had accepted the judgment.
He added that he would study the judgment, advise his client and would appeal it at the Supreme Court if instructed to do so.