A youth group of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Cross Rivers state chapter, on Wednesday, besieged the party\u2019s national secretariat, Abuja in protest against what they called the imposition of local government chairmen and vice-chairmen by the state governor, Professor Ben Ayade.<\/p>\n
The group under the auspices of Yala Political Development Forum led by the President, Ogar Joseph Odey accused the governor of handpicking the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the local governments without resorting to the constitutional mode of conducting primary elections, adding that if valid primaries were not conducted across the state; they would be left with no option but to quit the PDP for good.<\/p>\n
Bearing various placards with the inscriptions, \u201cAyade, let the people choose their leaders; \u201cSecondus, say no to impunity; \u201cImposition is demonic\u201d and \u201cEmperor Ayade must leave Yala alone,\u201d the group said the level of nepotism brought to the fore in the emergence of the council chairs and their deputies was unheard of in the history of the state.<\/p>\n
Addressing newsmen, Odey listed the demands of the forum to include an outright cancellation \u201cof that sham primary election and that a proper primary should be conducted. All aspirants should be given equal opportunity to contest and whoever emerges winner (s) shall have our full support. The party should uphold the existing zoning arrangement in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A youth group of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Cross Rivers state chapter, on Wednesday, besieged the party\u2019s national secretariat, Abuja in protest against what they called the imposition of local government chairmen and vice-chairmen by the state governor, Professor Ben Ayade. The group under the auspices of Yala Political Development Forum led by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[576,65],"class_list":["post-20959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-ayade","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n