The Imo State chapter of the people’s Democratic Party, PDP, congress has been shelved for the fourth time in less than fifteen days owing to infighting, horse trading and crisis brewing amongst the political gladiators of the main opposition party in the South Eastern state.
For the fourth time, the tension parked state Congress which ought to have taken place Wednesday at the grasshopper stadium in Owerri, the state capital was put to a stop yet again as the issues which necessitated the earlier postponements got messier.
The issue of zoning of positions ahead of the Congress is an issue which has threw the chieftains of the party at daggers drawn, as a former Governor of the State, chief Ikedi Ohakim and Senator Goodhope Uzodinma differ with the immediate past deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Abuja, Chief Emeka Ihedioha on it.
While chief Ohakim together with senator Uzodinma insist that Imo West senatorial district of the state is allowed and encouraged to complete eight years on the chairmanship position of the party, Chief Ihedioha together with other leaders are of the view that Imo North senatorial district be supported to produce the next chairman of the party.
This development has torn the party into shreds as the leaders are said to be working seriously to have their ways.
A chieftain of the party disclosed that the Congress was postponed again because the leaders of the party could not reach a balance. He informed that the national working committee of the party resolved that the contentious Congress be put off indefinitely till after the national convention of the party which comes up this weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.
The source explained that the indefinite postponement has opened another political was, as the contending leaders shift their political war and differences to the national convention where they are working to deliver their candidates so as to make things easier for themselves when the Congress is finally held in the State.
