PDP CRISIS DEEPENS, GOV ASPIRANT THREATENS TO QUIT.

Crisis rocking Ebonyi chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has deepened with more bigwigs threatening to dump the party.

The party has been in serious crisis, which affected its chances during the 2023 general election. After the election, many chieftains dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

However, as peace was being expected, the National Working Committee of the party, appointed caretaker committee to run the affairs of the party. This caused fresh crisis with many bigwigs expressing anger and threatening to dump the party if the NWC insisted.

Usulor, a former governorship aspirant of the party and three-term former House of Assembly member expressed disappointment at the continued factionalisation of the party. He alleged that the party stakeholders rather than come together to chart a new way forward for the party after the elections have continued doing things the old way. He claimed that the same practices and actions that caused the party’s defeat at the 2023 general election were still being carried out by stakeholders. 

He further alleged that the newly constituted Caretaker Committee of the Party has three known members of the ruling All Progressive Congress. He gave an example of one of those key stakeholders who left recently as a former member of the state House Assembly, Mrs Ngọzi Eziulo, who recently defected with thousands of her supporters. He warned that many other stakeholders and members are still gearing up to officially defect if the factions in the party do not come together quickly to unite the party.