Former federal lawmaker and National secretary consensus candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the October 31 elective convention, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has urged party faithful to look forward to mass defection of chieftains and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the PDP in the weeks ahead.
Anyanwu made this disclosure shortly after obtaining his expression of interest and nomination forms at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja. He stated that all that is left for the development to take place is for him to emerge secretary of the party in a fortnight.
Addressing journalists at the ocassion, Anyanwu said, ‘I know that even before my emergence as the national secretary of the party, there are indications that there will be a tsunami in the next few weeks in Imo state- those who are going to move out from the APC upon hearing my name as the national secretary of the party. I will not disappoint.
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‘There is going to be a tsunami of defections of people from APC to PDP especially from Imo state where I come from and other states in the South-East. I can tell you that as we speak, most people in APC, having heard that I have emerged as the consensus candidate of the party, refused to even participate in the last Saturday congress of the party, because they are preparing to move into PDP.’
He also promised to unify aggrieved members of the PDP in the South-East, saying “I have this approach that people like so much and I have been speaking to great leaders who left PDP to go and join the APC and I have been abel to know their grievances. I will start from where I come from and by the grace of God with the new brand of National Working Committee, we are going to make a difference.”
Reacting to reports that he was imposed on the party, Anyanwu said nothing could be farther from the truth.
‘I can never be imposed by anybody because I am a moving machine for the party. I have never lost election in PDP even when it mattered most. I have always won in Imo state.
‘Every leader in the the South-East states of Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi, knows who I am. I am a very humble person, I am very humane and of course a pure and true loyal party member that everybody wants to listen to,’ he said even as he noted that contrary to insinuations making the rounds, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state played no role in his emergence as the consensus candidate of the South-East for the office of the national scribe.
He said: ‘I was nominated by consensus by governors and leaders of the South-East. Gov. Wike is not from the South-East and couldn’t have played a role in my emergence.’
In the meantime, former Governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha, has said that he never rejected Senator Samuel Anyanwu’s candidature for the post of secretary to the PDP.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
