Former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, on Saturday, said that the dissolution of the structures of the party in the state has kept the party from being adequately represented.
Emeakayi, who led the party until October, last year when the national leadership of the party dissolved all the structures in the state, made the statement in Awka while declaring his intention to lead the party again.
He said he had been consulting at all levels in preparation for the contest, adding that the congresses was overdue because Anambra State did not have structure of PDP at present.
He said, “Because of the absence of the structure of the party in the state, Anambra is the only state not represented at meetings convened by PDP. “I have declared interest in the race and it is the NWC that will conduct the congress.
It is not Olisa Metuh that will conduct it because such an exercise cannot take place without the approval of NWC. “Let me assure members of PDP and stakeholders of the party in the state that I will contest. I am already consulting. If I win, fine, if I don’t win, I go home.”
The former Chairman, however, explained that it was because of the vacuum that he approached the Federal High Court, Awka, before the last general elections, for the court to compel the National Working Committee, NWC, to conduct the congresses in the state, but the court ruled that it was purely a party affair.
He stressed that the NWC toed the right path by choosing to plan the congresses for the ward, local government and state levels.
He said, “There is no member of PDP who would not favour the conduct of the congresses. The former governorship candidate of PDP in the 2015 election, Chief Tony Nwoye, also favoured the conduct of the congresses when he hosted a meeting of members of the party in Awka recently.”
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