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2023: PDP Suspends Primaries

<p><strong>The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar;<&sol;a> in Imo says it has suspended its primaries for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives indefinitely&comma;  over unreconciled delegates list&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A statement by the Legal Advisor of the party in the state&comma; Mr Kessinger Ikeokwu on Sunday&comma;  attributed the non-conduct of the primaries to confusion caused by the National Assembly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ikeoku explained that Imo would not vote along with other states who were now voting with their three man and one man national delegates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Please note that the reason for the suspension of the PDP house of assembly and house of representatives primaries in Imo was a result of the confusion that arose from the error of the national assembly in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is hinged on Section 84 &lpar;8&rpar; of the Electoral Act which inadvertently led to the exclusion of over 80 per cent of delegates ordinarily meant to vote at the primaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Imo PDP case became compounded because it hadn’t tidied up its three man ad hoc delegates&comma; who ought to vote at the primaries due to pending litigations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every preparation was made for us to use our statutory delegates to vote&comma; before the national assembly saw the error in Section 84 of the Amended Electoral Act&comma; 2022&comma; which excluded the statutory delegates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What it means is that it created a situation of chaos for Imo because we have not concluded our elected delegates&comma;” he explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;sextape-of-akwa-ibom-varsity-student-trends-on-social-media-video&sol;">Sextape Of Akwa-Ibom Varsity Student Trends On Social Media &lpar;VIDEO&rpar;<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>He urged party faithful to ignore fifth columnists writing about crisis within the party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; there is no crisis&comma; as the leadership of the party at all levels are working together to make sure our ad hoc delegates are cleared to vote at our primaries on a later date to be announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He assured them that as soon as President Muhammadu Buhari signed  the amended Electoral Act&comma; 2022&comma; the state delegate list would be properly constituted to vote at the primaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;NAN&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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