The Enugu State Gov¬ernment has debunked media reports alleging that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu and the National Working Committee of the party shunned Gov¬ernor Sullivan Chime when he went to see the chairman in his office on Tuesday.
According to the government, the governor did not only meet with the chairman of the party but spent two hours with him.
Mr. Chukwudi Achife, the chief press secretary to the Governor, insinuated that the reports were sponsored by the enemies of the state who were bent on spiting the governor.
Achife further described the report as a fabrication and a figment of the reporter’s imagination.
The spokesman that contrary to the report, the governor spent over two hours with the national chairman in his office, adding that he believed that the report was the handiwork of the governor’s political foes, designed to embarrass both the governor and the PDP chairman.
“That report was a pure fabrication, a figment of the reporter’s imagination. His Excellency, Governor Sullivan Chime spent over two hours with the national chairman of the PDP in his office.
“The report, which can only be described as cowardly and shameful, was apparently planted by the governor’s op¬ponents in an attempt to em¬barrass both the governor and the national chairman of the PDP,” Achife said.
Achife said that that contrary to the claims in the report, the recent appointment of Chief Ikeje Asogwa as the new chair¬man of the Peoples Demo¬cratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State conformed to the party’s constitution and convention.
He cited Article 47 (6) of the Constitution states that, “where a vacancy occurs in any of the offices of the party, the executive committee at the appropriate level would ap¬point another person from the area or zone, where the officer originated from, pending the conduct of election to fill the vacancy” to justify that position.
According to Achife, Asog¬wa was appointed into the position last Saturday at a meeting of the State Executive Committee (SEC) of the party following the resignation of the former chairman, Mr. Vita Abba, to pursue other political ambitions. He said the SEC had also ratified the endorsement of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the consensus of the party for the 2015 gubernatorial elections in the state.
