Leadership (Abuja)
Chuks Ohuegbe
20 September 2008
The Professor Jerry Gana - chaired Anambra Peace and Reconciliation Committee, in its bid to getting to the root of the crisis in the Anambra State chapter of the party, has invited Second Republic vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former presidential aide, Mr. Andy Uba and his brother, Chris, among others for an interactive session.
The committee, which has 14 days to turn in its report, according to its chairman, said that the Anambra stakeholders interactive session would hold next week in Abuja.
Gana, who spoke yesterday in Abuja, while fielding questions from journalists, maintained that neither him nor any other member of the committee had any interest in Anambra State whatsoever.
"We are going to be neutral, just, fair and do what is right. We don't have any interest whatsoever," Prof. Gana said.
Furthermore, Gana noted that the crisis in Anambra State had remained "a source of great pain to many within and outside the state," adding that there is a nationwide consensus that the people of Anambra State deserve peace, harmony and security.
"Therefore, our mandate is to leave no stone unturned in trying to regain and restore the unity, togetherness, harmony and common purpose that achieved victory for the PDP at virtually every election since 1999 in Anambra State," the chairman noted.
Gana also clarified that the committee had no mandate to conduct election into any office in Anambra State. "Rather, we wish to meet, consult and share ideas with stakeholders on ways to realising the onerous task facing this committee."
Meanwhile, the national secretariat of PDP has frowned at repeated media reports allegedly sponsored by Mr. Andy Uba, accusing the national chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor of instigating the crisis in Anambra State.
Special assistant (Media) to the national chairman, Mr. Chijioke Adindu, clarified in a statement, that Ogbulafor has no personal interest in the Anambra crisis. Also, that the national chairman bears no grudge against any member of the party in Anambra State, including Mr. Andy Uba.
Adindu, however, said that the burden of total commitment to a solemn pledge to store equity, fairness, justice, inclusiveness, rule of law and internal democracy to the PDP had apparently placed the national chairman on parallel course with Uba.
The statement further reads;
"Specifically, the resolve of the national chairman to conduct fresh congresses in Anambra State as recommended by the South East Action Committee and ratified by NWC and NEC is the only sin for which a price is hanging on Ogbulafor's neck."
It would be recalled that party members in Anambra State had alleged that Uba used his relationship with the former president to create a party structure that dislodged other stakeholders from the state.
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