Imo PDP Guber Aspirants Take Battle To Abuja Again: Resort To Propanganda, Name Dropping, Facebook Blackmail

With few months to primaries to elect a governorship candidate for the PDP in Imo State, this blog can authoritatively reveal that most of the aspirants have upped the ante in their aggression to clinch the party’s guber ticket by engaging in various forms of conventional and unconventional political tactics

We had reported last month that most of the aspirants especially those who stay in Abuja frequently visit the places of abode of one to PDP chieftain or the other where they canvass the need for them to be the party’s flag-bearer.

 This time,name dropping and blackmail have also become the weapon for the contenders, all in a bid to outwit the other.

Some have also employed the services of hack writers as well who make effective use of social media such as facebook to spread falsehood and blackmail fellow political opponents in the contest.

While most of them have returned back to Abuja for the Easter celebration after taking part in series of political activities including a Fund Raising held in Owerri , a good number of  them  are seriously engaged in intense lobbying of the party’s eggheads in Abuja.

There is a general belief amongst some of them them that whoever will fly the party’s flag in the governorship election will be influenced by Abuja despite the pronouncement by the party’s national chairman, Adamu Muazu that only free, fair and credible primaries will produce the party’s candidate.

A source in the party who spoke to this blog from Abuja, said the frequency of Imo PDP governorship aspirants to the homes of those who call the shots in the party in Abuja is alarming and crazy.

The source said "Sometimes, I wonder when they have the time to put their campaign organizations in order. Is the battle won in Abuja. They forget that the old order is no longer feasible in PDP. Are they the only ones vying for election.  They besiege the homes of these bigmen and most times, they come here to blackmail one another. They forget this will portray them in bad light. Is Imo State the only State where the PDP desperately wants back power?”