 There was confusion on Saturday in Anambara over the conduct of the Governor's primary election of the People's Democratic Party PDP as two factions of the party held separate elections. This is as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it would comply with an Abuja Haikot judgment dismissing the sacking of the Anambara State PDP executives. Meanwhile, two factions elected Senator Ugochuku Uba and Valentine Ozibu as the representative or as the respective standard bearers of the November 6 polls. Joining us to discuss this is Nnamdi Mwangu. He is the PDP Publicity Secretary of the Anambara State Chapter. Good evening and thank you for joining us, Mr Nnamdi. Thank you. Give us an idea of what exactly transpired on Saturday, because from the information that we got from the PDP official handle, they seem to be in support of Valentine Ozibu. But I'll start with the first question, which is, what exactly is the reason for the PDP in Anambara having two factions? Why is there a faction in the party? Let me start with the conduct of the primaries and then what are the constitutional provisions? The constitutional provisions says, is the national executive or national working committee of the party of a party that will conduct primaries for commercial connection, not a state executive? So it is now, it was the national working committee of the party that came down to Anambara State to conduct a primary that brought out Valentine Ozibu as the general candidate of PDP in the committee election. That is one. Two. The reason of, whether we are the executive or not, is not to question, we are the elected executive, the executive of PDP in Anambara State, and which was dedicated by the Federal High Court judgment of December 2017. So I don't know which other one they are talking about, even if that is said, our executive has been dissolved by the National Working Committee. It is not the duty of the state to conduct primaries for the entire election. So in effect, Valentine Ozibu is coming out as the general candidate of PDP in Anambara State and a primary that was conducted by the National Working Committee and supervised by ILEC, so that to be sure that we play according to the rules. What is the grievance of the Uba-led faction and Ime Uba-led faction? What exactly is their grievance? Because they also are claiming that they have followed the party constitution to have that candidate emerge. What exactly is there, apart from the fact that they feel that your leadership had been dissolved, even though High Court judgment has said that, you know, it had reversed that. Apart from that, what is the reason that the party seems to be aggrieved, especially that group of people, because they seem to be a handful? Well, I don't know what Uba-led was a candidate committee chairman. After that, the present executive led by Chief Honorable De Basing-Wogu was elected in 2017 and their last chance is to exist with the election of a new state executive. So I don't know which of them is their grievance, this is all about, but all I know is that the candidate committee, to the best of my knowledge, has a life span and with the election of a new executive, their life span has expired. Was this clearly communicated to those people in the faction that their tenure had expired? Was there a meeting of sorts, bringing everybody to the table to have this conversation? Because if there was a, I'm asking this, because if this was clearly stated, you would not have parallel primaries, would you? The election of a new executive that brought in PDP State School, that is led by Chief Honorable De Basing-Wogu, has brought again the existence of Umaaba Catecha Committee. One, two, during the 2019 election, it was the individual executive that minuized whatever congresses and that this thing that was done, that brought out all the candidates that were in the National Assembly today. So and the same group of people went for the Party Convention in Potacon to elect the presidential candidates. So I don't know what has come of them that they are now still agitating when these people have been in place and performing their duties as according to law. How does the PDP, how do you hope to win the governorship elections if there is already a House divided against itself? The PDP is up against, the APC is up against APCA, who have their candidates also, I mean APCA just had their primaries and someone emerged. How do you hope to run for the governorship elections if your House is on fire in quote? If I may brief you, the three main political parties in Amnabras are having issues. Oh, so you agree that your party is having issues? Because when I asked you, you said you do not know what the agreement is. Your own primaries on the 1st of July, while in the PC about 12, 13, all that as far as said, there was no primaries in the 21 local government areas and the 236 was in Amnabras states. So I think we are even more organized and more unified than most of the other two major political parties. So are you banking on the fact that these other political parties have problems just as you? Shouldn't you be trying to put your own House together so that you can be a better or formidable force against all three parties? I'm wondering, should you be making this analogy instead of thinking of ways to bring your party together? Well, there is a representative committee that is in place now. So what I'm trying to tell you is that there is no House in any of these political parties that are not there. And you're counting on this to be able to win governorship? Is this what you're counting on? Yes, because we are on ground. We are the most, we are the popular party in Amnabras states. It's the APC at the government House right now as we, sorry, it's the PDP in the occupying government House as we speak. So how do you say that you're the party on ground? You're in a position. The House of National Assembly members in the last election that has to show you the strength of the party in the states. What's the percentage of the PDP in the House of Assembly in this state? Well, in the House of Assembly because there's a continuation that if there's a distortion and the presidential results appeal to the other party that they should help and get because there was a rule there that PDP will impeach the governor if they have the majority. So the details of course in Amnabras states, they are preaching that the committee should be giving the House of Assembly members so that they can continue and finish up the study. So that will not be an issue to measure how strong we are. But in the National Assembly to have the majority of you have to sit at the top of three, you have seven out of 11, is that your strength? Does it? Well, all I hear from you excuses and hoping that everybody else fails even though you yourself is yet to put your party in order but I wish you all the best hopefully in the coming elections. Thank you very much. Nambi Wangu is the publicity secretary of the People's Democratic Party in Amnabras state. Thank you for speaking with us. Thank you. All right. Well, we'll take a short break and when we come back I'll give you my take. Stay with us. Here's my take. It's really heartbreaking to realise that Bandit have made a mockery of our government and security operations as they continue to abduct, to kidnap students on almost a daily basis. Now we see not to understand the gravity and the seriousness of what these people are doing, so let me educate you. Education is the bedrock of every nation's development and if that education in that country or state is, you know, under constant attack, does it not mean that the state or the nation's development and the future of that country is being attacked? So it makes me wonder why are we playing the game of ping-pong with this issue, aside from, you know, education. Cautism is now rife in our primary and secondary schools. It's ridiculously bad. Many have blamed parents for abandoning their children. It makes me really wonder have we failed on the home front? Have our communities also failed our children so much so that they now find sucker in crime, in criminality. They're pledging allegiance to carry arms and inflict pain on fellow humans. We as a society have to sit up. We must go back to the basics to fix what is broken before it destroys us and our entire future. I'm Marianne Corn. Thank you for watching. Have a good evening.