Delegates of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Taraba
State on Wednesday stoned the convoy of the state Governor, Darius Ishaku and
his Deputy Haruna Manu at the Catholic Pastoral Centre Jalingo.
Our correspondent reports that the Deputy Governor had
driven to the voting arena where the election was billed to take place but the
delegates in defiance drove the Deputy Governor away with stones.
Shortly after, the state Governor’s convoy drove into the
arena but was not allowed to stop as the delegates started stoning the convoy
insisting that they did not want to talk to the governor and leadership of the
party.
Some of the delegates who spoke to our correspondent said
they were not comfortable with the imposition of the state PDP party Chairman
as an aspirant when he was never a part of the process until barely forty-eight
hours to the primaries.
Our correspondent recalls that posters of Chairman of the
party Kefas Agbu who had earlier denied being a part of the governorship race
in the state suddenly sprung all over the state capital Jalingo shortly after
the former Minister of Defense General Theophilus Danjuma flew into the state
and allegedly anointed him as his candidate for the party’s flag ahead of the
2023 general elections.
However, the action has sparked widespread condemnation and
agitations from stakeholders who insist that they would not have the elder
statesman impose a candidate on the party again, more so that the candidate is
the seating Chairman of the party and from the same zone as the current
governor who is about to complete his second tenure in office.
At the time of filing this report, the primary election
which is slated to hold at the Jolly Nyame stadium is yet to commence.
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