Alleged sabotage: PDP suspends Anambra gov candidate Ezenwafor

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended Mr Jude Ezenwafor, its governorship candidate in last Saturday’s election over alleged sabotage.

The State Executive Committee (SEC) of the PDP in Anambra announced this at the end of its meeting held at the party’s office in Awka on Tuesday.

The party said that the suspension, which will last for a period of one month, is with immediate effect.

Commenting on the conduct of the Nov. 8 election, PDP said the exercise, saying that it would not contest the outcome in court or elsewhere.

Mr Chidi Chidebe, Chairman of PDP, Anambra chapter, who spoke to journalists after the meeting, said that the party had earlier expressed deep concerns over the ‘disturbing conduct’ of Ezenwafor.

Chidebe said the candidate exhibited attitudes that were not only uncooperative but outrightly destructive to the collective interest of the party throughout the campaign period.

He said that Ezenwafor failed to campaign in any ward, local government, or across the state throughout the entire electioneering period up to the last date for campaigns.

According to him, among the issues that previously worried the SEC were his connivance with candidates of other political parties to deliberately sabotage the chances of the PDP in the election.

“His unconvincing and fabricated story of an alleged assassination and extortion of genuine party members, including his own running mate and other manipulative behaviours were unbecoming of a candidate of our great party.

“His establishment of a parallel gang of impostors, mostly non-members of the PDP to unlawfully interfere with and perform party functions. Vanguard