BY EXCEL CHIMA
One
of the senators in Imo State (names withheld) on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP is said to be in cahoots with the All Progressive
Congress, APC over 2019 Imo governorship.
Though
the senator has continued to stay put in the PDP, he is said to have opened
channels of communication and political understanding with a top leader of the
APC in the State over a "swap deal".
A
source privy to the secret romance of the senator with the top APC leader told
INNONEWS.COM that the senator played an “active role” for the
APC in the botched Imo North senatorial re- run which the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) suspended.
The
swap deal, according to the source,
entails that the senator will “deliver” the top APC leader who will quit his
present office in 2019 after the expiration of his mandate and run for one of
the senatorial seats in the State in the event his much talked
presidential ambition fails.
“The
top APC leader is bent on going to the senate in 2019, while the PDP senator
wants to be governor. The APC leader is already
in serious political romance with another APC chieftain from another
zone who is also eying the State governorship seat” the source told this online
newspaper yesterday.
The
source continued “It is just a matter of time. The senator knows he may lose
the PDP governorship ticket in 2019 because there is every possibility that the
PDP in Imo State may not favour a governorship candidate from his zone.
Besides, the senator is facing stiff opposition in the PDP right now.
“He
is battling with a former Federal lawmaker from Imo East senatorial zone who
wants to aspire for the governorship ticket of the PDP for a second time. There
is ongoing cold war between the two right now. The senator is also having
rough political times with a former governor of the State who is also from his
zone and other top leaders of the party who recently moved for the composition
of a caretaker committee for Imo PDP.
“Based
on the political landmines in the PDP in the State which may affect his
ambition, the ambitious senator is now one leg, one leg out of the PDP. Even
before the Caretaker Committee was set up, there was an ongoing talk which he
has not been finalized with a top leader of the APC for the swap deal in 2019.
“How
he believes that the swap deal will work is left for him to tinker with
considering the fact there are two or three persons close to the top APC leader
who are also warming up to take over from him in 2019” the source concluded.
The
PDP in Imo State has been in turmoil over the composition of the new Caretaker
Committee led by Vitalis Okafor.
The ongoing war of attrition in the party is said to be linked to a fierce war for control of the party structure which will pave the way for any of the governorship contenders to have an upper-hand.
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The ongoing war of attrition in the party is said to be linked to a fierce war for control of the party structure which will pave the way for any of the governorship contenders to have an upper-hand.
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