197 Delegates To Elect Anambra PDP Guber Candidate

Edo State Deputy Governor and Secretary Anambra PDP Governorship
Primary Election Committee, Philip Shaibu has revealed that less
than 200 delegates would begin voting soon to elect a candidate for
the party.

Shaibu who stood in for Benue State governor, Mr Samuel Ortom
who was announced as the chairman of the committee said the party
had little hitch that caused a delay in the process, but would
start voting soon.

He addressed journalists at the Prof. Dora Akunyili Women’s
Development Centre, shortly after a closed door meeting with
governorship aspirants.

He said: “We just concluded the first round of accreditation and
the second and most important is the one we just started now. What
we just did was to get everybody that is a delegate here and left
every other person that has no business in here outside. The next
stage is for them to go inside and we give them the accreditation
tags.

“What we have so far from the list I just received is less than
200 delegates as against 230 that we have on our list. And for us,
that makes more sense than to have over 230. So, we’ll be starting
in a very short while and we will be going local government by
local government inside.

“We had a little hitch at the beginning because we had to stop
every aspirant at the gate and searched them. The aspirants were
not comfortable with that. But it is just measures we had to put in
place for safety and measures for transparency and for everybody to
be carried along to make sure that we have a successful primary
that would be seemingly said to be free, fair and acceptable by
all.”

He stated that he was determined to deliver a free and fair
primary election, stating that his happiness is that the aspirants
have so far conducted themselves well, also stating that some have
even stepped down for others to ensure a seamless process.

“I am determined to have a free, fair and credible primaries and
that is why we engaged ourselves inside to make sure that all the
fears of the aspirants are sorted out. At the end of the day we all
agreed to go ahead.

“Interestingly, three aspirants stepped down and they also
pledged loyalty to the party and whoever will emerge as winner in
this primaries because for them, they are determined to work with
whoever that emerges today to reclaim Government House,” he
said.

Edo State Deputy Governor and Secretary Anambra PDP Governorship
Primary Election Committee, Philip Shaibu has revealed that less
than 200 delegates would begin voting soon to elect a candidate for
the party.

Shaibu who stood in for Benue State governor, Mr Samuel Ortom
who was announced as the chairman of the committee said the party
had little hitch that caused a delay in the process, but would
start voting soon.

He addressed journalists at the Prof. Dora Akunyili Women’s
Development Centre, shortly after a closed door meeting with
governorship aspirants.

He said: “We just concluded the first round of accreditation and
the second and most important is the one we just started now. What
we just did was to get everybody that is a delegate here and left
every other person that has no business in here outside. The next
stage is for them to go inside and we give them the accreditation
tags.

“What we have so far from the list I just received is less than
200 delegates as against 230 that we have on our list. And for us,
that makes more sense than to have over 230. So, we’ll be starting
in a very short while and we will be going local government by
local government inside.

“We had a little hitch at the beginning because we had to stop
every aspirant at the gate and searched them. The aspirants were
not comfortable with that. But it is just measures we had to put in
place for safety and measures for transparency and for everybody to
be carried along to make sure that we have a successful primary
that would be seemingly said to be free, fair and acceptable by
all.”

He stated that he was determined to deliver a free and fair
primary election, stating that his happiness is that the aspirants
have so far conducted themselves well, also stating that some have
even stepped down for others to ensure a seamless process.

“I am determined to have a free, fair and credible primaries and
that is why we engaged ourselves inside to make sure that all the
fears of the aspirants are sorted out. At the end of the day we all
agreed to go ahead.

“Interestingly, three aspirants stepped down and they also
pledged loyalty to the party and whoever will emerge as winner in
this primaries because for them, they are determined to work with
whoever that emerges today to reclaim Government House,” he
said.