Imo PDP: Why They Are After Me – Senator Anyanwu, National Secretary

By Charles Igbo

Senator Samuel Anyanwu, popular as Samdaddy, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said some people are after him from his home State, Imo, and are doing everything to destroy him.

He revealed that to achieve that, a sum of N100m has been set aside and plunged into the project. He said the money would be spent on propaganda against him.

The good thing, according to him, is that “they cannot go further than they have gone already”,  and that he knows where the money is coming from.

Senator Anyanwu was responding to the pronouncements made by a House of Representatives Aspirant in the State for the Ideato North and South Federal Constituency, Ikenga Ugochinyere Imo, who said the National Secretary has been expelled from the Party and, therefore, not a member.

Anyanwu said Ugochinyere is, however, a disqualified Aspirant.

But Ugochinyere’s stand was supported by Tochukwu Ohazuruike, a Lawyer and member of the PDP,  Imo State, while speaking during an interview  session on Arise Television on Tuesday.

Anyanwu; in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Ikenna Onuoha, dismissed Ohazuruike as an “unrepentant blackmailer and a political hireling”

He said: “On Arise Television Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, one Tochukwu Ohazurike, a known  political  hireling and unrepentant blackmailer who parades himself as a Lawyer, accused the National Secretary of PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu of hijacking the 3-man adhoc delegate Congress election held on April 30, 2022 in Imo State.

“Ohazurike also claimed that Senator Anyanwu allegedly hijacked the delegate results to pave way for his Governorship election anytime it will hold.

“Regrettably, he shamefully refused to tell his audience whether he saw Senator Anyanwu live at the scene of the exercise or not to have propelled him to hijack the results.

“Re-emphasizing what a disqualified House of Representatives aspirant for Ideato North and South earlier alleged, Ohazurike maintained that Senator Anyanwu is not a member of PDP hence, should not continue to function as the party’s National Secretary.

“Pitiably, this is the only extent they can go, no more no less!

“Be that as it may, Ohazurike is entitled to his personal opinion whether negative or positive, but it, therefore, becomes so worrisome and unfortunate for him to embarrass himself on the air over an issue he does not know its crux.

“The truth of the matter is that Ohazurike and his likes are gate crashers and infiltrators into our party who can do anything possible to destroy the relative peace the party is currently enjoying.

“It is regrettable to inform the public that Ohazurike and his cohorts are struggling to malign the reputation of PDP National Secretary all in a bid to justify the N100 million they were said to have collected from a known desperate politician in Imo state.

“However, we cannot continue to join issues with these disgruntled elements who anxiously masquerade around seeking to whom to devour especially, once money exchanges hands. We have exhausted our respect for them hence, cannot respond again on this subject.

“Our appeal is that their brains should be tested to ascertain the level of their mental sanity.”

The PDP in Imo State has been having its internal crisis, especially, since the election of Anyanwu as the National Secretary. There seems an obvious power struggle over who the leader of the Party is between the former Governor of the State, The Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and Anyanwu, especially, over who controls the structure.