By Mike Odiakose
A former Minister of Women Affairs, Iyom Josephine Anenih, has tasked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Anambra State Congress Committee to ensure fair and credible election during the congress.
Speaking in Awka after the State Congress was postponed over logistics problem, the former Minister lamented that Anambra PDP members have experienced painful imposition of executives in the past that were orchestrated by some Abuja-based politicians.
According to her, these politicians capitalize their proximity to Wadata House national secretariat of PDP in Abuja to peddle false stories about security situation in Anambra and same time tamper with list of delegates that are supposed to participate in PDP congresses in the state.
While assuring the State Congress Committee that Anambra State is “peaceful and secured,” Anenih, who is a former National Woman Leader of the PDP, stressed that members of the party are eager to participate in the Congress that will see the emergence of true representatives if the party members
Hers words: “I want to thank God for granting the Anambra State Congress Committee led by His Excellency Ifeanyi Ossai safe journey to Anambra. I thank the Committee members who disregarded the negative news about Anambra that are being spread by detractors to demarket Anambra, and came to Anambra to see a peaceful and hospitable State.
“I urge this Committee to be steadfast in discharging their mandate of conducting a free and fair election to elect a State Executive Committee.
“In the past, elements who are hell bent on distabilising the Party and making sure there is no elected executive structure in the State, would take advantage of their proximity to Wadata Plaza because they live in Abuja, go to Wadata Plaza and tell all sorts of lies about Anambra PDP, and influence the people in Wadata Plaza to take decisions that are detrimental to our progress here.
Iyom Anenih, who is also a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) added, “This time around it will not happen because the Executive at Wadata Plaza have known the truth and are determined to do the right thing.
“I thanked the National Auditor who is one of us for speaking up for us and letting his colleagues at the NWC know the truth about the situation on ground.
“I asked the Congress Committee to write their names in gold as a Committee that no one is able to manipulate as they used to do in the past.
“I pledged full cooperation of authentic and dedicated Anambra State PDP members in Anambra with the Committee to make their job of conducting a free and fair election easy and seamless.
“I prayed for their safe travels as they return and come back on a new agreed date.”
