Abia 2023: Abaribe pulls out of PDP primary, alleges imaginary delegates to vote

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has withdrawn from the People’s Democratic party(PDP) Governorship primary election.

The senate minority leader announced his withdrawal from the governorship race in a statement issued on Wednesday.

The PDP governorship primaries are scheduled to take place today across the country.

Abaribe attributed his withdrawal from the race to “imaginary” delegates, whom he said will vote in the primary.

“To make matters worse, the use of only an imaginary 3-man ad-hoc delegates to the exclusion of the party’s statutory delegates in the primary elections to elect our candidates even when INEC, the nation’s electoral umpire, has unequivocally stated that no congress held in Abia State for that purpose, has no doubt put the party and her candidates in a quagmire, he said

“I am, therefore, withdrawing from the exercise, which means that I will not be part of the PDP governorship primary election that holds in Abia State on Wednesday 25th of May, 2022, as doing so would have amounted to endorsement of an illegality that is already being challenged in the courts.

“I, therefore, ask all our people, our teeming supporters and Ndigbo to remain calm, keep the faith and wait for the new direction, which will be announced very soon, he added