PDP swarms Anambra communities with buses, cash

SUPPORTERS of the PDP, in Anambra State are indeed smiling following the distribution of hundreds of buses to them by the Tony Nwoye Campaign Organization.

All the 177 communities in the state were said to have received at least a bus and mouth watering amount of money to follow.

The gesture had rejuvenated the hitherto inactive local government branches of the party as officials in the various local government areas say they are set to sell their candidate despite

the short time they have to do that because of the litigations that trailed the party’s primaries

Only last week, a financier of the party, Prince Arthur Eze promised to donate N4 million to every ward that delivers Nwoye during the November 16 election, while the candidate himself promised N3 million.

PDP is on ground — Emeakayi, PDP chairman

Chairman of PDP in the state, Prince Ken Emeakayi has assured party men and other stakeholders that the party was up to its duties in mobilizing support for its candidate in the election despite the challenges it has faced in recent times.

The PDP has been particularly challenged in pushing forward a candidate following legal challenges against Comrade Tony Nwoye who won the party primaries. Plans by the party to flag off its campaign last weekend was aborted following a court order arising from the latest appeal by Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu against Nwoye’s affirmation as the candidate.

“You see what I don’t understand is how people seem to be drawing conclusions.”

“Is there any law that says for you to campaign and win election you must flag-off? Flagging off is the way you choose to begin your campaign. PDP was never planning a flagging off, what we were planning and still planning to do is a formal launching, whereby the national leadership of our party will come and present the candidate of the party and formally launch our campaign.”

“Our campaign has started in earnest in Anambra State, we have been touring all the wards, all the local governments, we have inaugurated our canvassers long time ago and our canvassers have been visiting homes, markets.”

“If party A decides to do fanfare, decides to do road show and if they believe that that is what is going to make them win, that is their strategy. I am not bound to copy them.

Party B is not bound to copy them. There is nothing stopping us from doing our programmes and all our programmes are ongoing. It is the electorate who will decide who their governor will be, it is not by fanfare,” he said.

“There is nobody in Anambra State who will say that he is not aware that PDP is campaigning, our target is to meet the electorate and we are meeting them by our own design, by our own style.”