The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national leadership yesterday indicated the urgent need to prune down the growing number of governorship aspirants in Imo State to position the party for the forthcoming primaries
This was the task former national chairman of the party, Alhaji Ahmadu Ali handed over to the leadership of the party in Imo State when he visited the state on his reconciliation mission.
Ali who is the Chairman of the Integration Committee met with gubernatorial aspirants numbering over 20 at the party secretariat, Owerri.
247ureports.com learnt that the former national Chairman, who had a closed door meeting with the aspirants, disclosed that he was in the state to integrate the people who returned back to PDP as well as other decampees from other political parties.
A source who was in the meeting also told our correspondent that a committee headed by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, a BoT member, was set up to ensure that people are well integrated into the party.
According to the source, the former national chairman also mandated integration committee to trim down the 22 governorship aspirants “because all of them will not be allowed to go to the primaries”.
However, a female member of the committee suggested that a female governorship aspirant should be included among those who will be contesting the primaries.
The issue of zoning formula was also raised at the meeting by the former national chairman who insisted that the PDP has a zoning formula which the party intends to follow in 2015 general elections.
