Tension in Enugu PDP Over Nnamani's alleged Planned Come Back

Senator Chimaroke Nnamani

...I ‘m not bothered about Enugu politics for now - Nnamani

In an apparent show of apprehension, the Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, denounced the newspaper report that the former governor of the State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, is planning to return to the PDP, saying it is a dramatic move that will never see the light of the day.

The State Chapter of the Party was reacting to the news report by a national daily that “the Deputy President of the Senate (DSP), Ike Ekweremadu, was locked in a marathon meeting with former Governor Nnamani, ostensibly to distill the former

governor’s grievances and conditions for reuniting with the PDP”.

In a statement signed by the State Chairman of the Party, Mr. Vita Abba, the PDP said that it will employ every possible means at its disposal to ensure that such a bad omen does not revisit the Party in the State.

He added that “it would amount to gross disservice to the Party and the State to allow such attributes of vendetta, villainy and despot to rejoin the Party at this point in time the State is enjoying the highest level of peace and good governance under the dynamic leadership of Governor Sullivan Chime.”

Abba noted that in spite of the fact that the PDP Constitution made provision for returnees, “the State Chapter of the Party takes exception to any clandestine move by the former Governor to return to the Party he worked in vain to destroy.”

The state party Chairman revealed that the former Governor left the Party out of his own volition and formed an opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Congress (PDC) “with the sole aim of destabilizing the PDP in the State.”

He also disclosed that consequent upon his alleged inhuman treatment meted out to the Party that saw him to the exalted offices of a State Governor for two terms of eight years and a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Party had taken all administrative measures to delist his membership status from the Party’s records and will not under any circumstance succumb to cheap blackmail or political gang-up that could undermine the existing peace and progress recorded by the PDP-led Government of Governor Sullivan Chime in Enugu State.

Describing the former Governor as “a  political liability to Enugu State”, Abba reaffirmed that the State structure of the PDP was  intact, formidable, and healthy and does not need any distraction from those he described as “political intruders and agents of the opposition political parties obviously drafted to destabilize the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.”

Reacting to the PDP’s threat to reject his coming back to its fold, Senator Nnamani said he was not bothered about what is going on the state for now as he only returned to the state during the holiday to see his people.

“I just came home after some health challenges to see my people.  I have been interacting with them and I am not bothered about party politics for now,” Nnamani said when contacted yesterday.