By CHARLES IWUOHA

Seven members of the state Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Imo State on Sunday morning announced their resignations from their positions.

They also announced the withdrawal of their memberships from the party.

At a press conference in Owerri, Mr Collins Opurozor who until now was the state publicity secretary of the party said that the candidate of the party for the November 11 governorship election in the state, senator Samuel Anyanwu, doesn’t have what it takes to govern the state.

He said himself, the secretary of the party Ray Emeana, the youth leader, Greg Nwadike, the deputy state chairman, Martin Ejiogu, the state woman leader, Maria Mbakwe, Josiah Eze, State Treasurer and Chibuisi Obido, State Vice Chairman, Orlu Zone, have resigned from their positions and equally dumped the party.

They however refused to announce which party they were joining, adding that the next party they would join would be made known in the days to come.

Opurozor said, “Since 2020 when this Working Committee took over the administrative cockpit of the PDP in Imo State, we have evolved a tradition of being upfront with you as members of the fourth estate of the realm about all issues that trouble our dear state.

“We have, through such interactions, inspired faith in a better Imo realised through good governance and democratic norms. “Today, unfortunately, is not for such engagements. In unequivocal terms, we announce to you that the PDP in Imo State has now been damaged beyond redemption by the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Samdadday), and the Party is, at last, moving irreversibly to its terminus.

“It is necessary we remind you that in the last three years, this Working Committee has built a very strong, formidable and enviable PDP in Imo State. To enable the Party to realise its promise of being a truly democratic entity, we envisioned the need to expand the internal democratic space by forming nearly five thousand chapters across all the polling units in the State.

According to him, the state working committee took the Party to the people that made PDP the darling of the Imo people explaining that they accomplished the task despite the lean resources as an opposition.

The former image maker stated that since Senator Anyanwu became the National Secretary of the Party, he has never relented in deploying the powers of his office to fight members of the state Working Committee and intimidate even ordinary members of the Party.

"Endless strife, mindless wars and erosion of all democratic values and principles have now defined and defiled Imo PDP. “Day after day, Senator Anyanwu still sponsors his very few loyalists to cook up puerile petitions against us and flood the National Secretariat of the Party with such inanities.

Continuing, he said the basis of the contrivances, Anyanwu has continued to threaten to dissolve the Party in Imo State, even after they have defeated him at the Supreme Court.