Another candidate expresses opposition to Soludo's imposition

The undemocratic and dramatic emergence of Mr Soludo as the PDP flag bearer in next year gubernatorial election in Anambra state is a wake up call to Anambrarians and other political parties in the state. With antecedents of PDP, your bet is as good as mine. The same Prof.Soludo who was too busy hob-nobbing with chief executives of some wobbling banks in Nigeria to wield the big stick like his successor at the central bank, will undemocratically and dramatically emerged as the (s)elected governor of Anambra state next year. God help Peter Obi!

I have been thinking the Anambra people have learnt that been good at manuplating truth can not make anybody a good leader, the poor peoople under such a leader are always used as engine oil.

Soludo has nothing to do with this problems, it was the fault of PDP not to organise primaries, I knew that selecting a candidate will never be easy, after spending a whopping 5million naira, they have to speed up the reconciliation process, to allow soludo time for campaign, and INEC should desist from supporting ANDY UBAs case as a subsitude, should incase Soludo did not survive, PDP`should not play with Anambrarians, It is better for them not to present any body so that our OBI will continue with his good governance.

The NEXT Onslaught against Soludo's candidacy will fail.

It's very shameful that our people are still being misled by some "self-serving touts" called politicians, who are mercenaries sponsored by our common Igbo enemies (from within and without). No Yoruba man would burn down the home of AWOLOWO nor Hausa man burn down TAFAWA BALEWA's home. But shamelessly some of these same noisy groups and their cohorts orchestrated, masterminded, sponsored the burnings of the home of the great ZIK of Africa - the OWELLE of Onitsha (which action is still a dangling sacrilege on the entire Igbo race), the blockade of the Niger bridge head for hours, burning of government structures in Awka, Onitsha, abduction of the Gov. Ngige. Same group went to Asaba with a few 'legislators' to illegally impeach Gov. Peter OBI; thereby throwing Anambra State into decades of backwardness. Since that action, the political future of those participated "Legislators" were destroyed. Shamelessly we can not stand up in common condemnation to see and say that something is wrong and enough is enough. Similarly, when we had the slot to fill-in by quota, the PDP National Chairmanship, it was as shameful, the parade of the galaxy of candidates. The Igbos again, lost the opportunity to recover their eroding ethnic and national respects. In 2003, the entire Yoruba race, including all the western based opposition parties + even the AD consented to the consesus to field the then incumbent President Obasanjo's as their consensus candidate for the second term. We should not forget the vote-splitting show of shame of Senator Jim NWOBODO against Ekwueme in Jos presedential primaries, in favour of Obansanjo. Was Obasanjo the best candidate from the entire West. These are people (ethnic) guided by wisdom, respecting their elders and working for their future generations. But small Anambra fielded 47 candidates on PDP alone, for JUST governorship 2010; paying up the required N5million non-refundable fees. They Knew that ONLY one candidate will emerge!! Shame on you all - these spoilers called aspirants, who could not rally round to uplift the drowning image of the Igboman. Note that the Yorubas certainly do not like Obasanjo per say but they pulled behind him in 2003 elections. Now see their political benefits!!! You my reader can count the post Obasanjo's political and the economic benefits of the Yorubaman - its endless. The Hausa PDP members know that President Yar'Adua was a consensus candidate and worse of all ailing but never kicked against his "selection". Yet he is well respected and they are enjoying the benefits. The VP Goodluck Jonathan is not the best from the Niger Delta for the position of VP. But see the overwhelming support, for their common good and benefits. Since his tenure as VP, more developmental policies, funds, budgets, structures, concessions have gone into the Niger Delta than in the last decade because there had not been the 'usual Igbo sell-out' in the Niger Delta (including the gains of accepting amnesty). We the Igbos, sponsored the total acquisition of the skills of kidnapping which the initiators - Niger Deltans dropped for their better future. There is no gain saying that none of these candidates has the profile and pedigree of worldwide well respected Prof. Chukwuma SOLUDO. If we pretend to preach democratic procedures than the consensus, was it not same purported democratic process in Awka that was so hijacked, that the Chairman PDP Speaker Bankole cried-out for the Igboman, following what he saw in Awka? As concerned, hitherto scared citizens of Anambra State, we are watching your utterances and actions. The day of reckoning is close-by. We do not want a situation where Prof. SOLUDO will be over-loaded with concesions (as in the days of Gov. Mbadinuju) that if he finally wins, nothing will be left to develop Anambra. May God help us.

Annie Okonkwo should let sleeping dogs lie or does he want to be everything at the same time. He is an importer, ask those of us at cemetary market Aba, he is a senator, ask all the political juggernuts and he now wants to milk Anambra state.

This anambra debacle has nothing to do with the profiles of the aspirants but with following due process and entrenching true and deep internal democracy at the party level. Maybe this will have some effect on the party - PDP to allow true democracy to rein during the general election. Methink, if its politically correct for PDP to hold their primaries. if soludo wins, he stays but if he losses, gets substituted at INEC.

I pity Anambra people should PDP grabS the mantle of leadership in that state. I also pity Mr Soludo for involving himself in a mess like this. Tell me, how does he intend to settle the Abuja Group when gets into power? How does he intend to appease those 47 aspirants? How about the state factions? The Chris Uba`s ,The house of assemble members? Then the interest of the entire state? Only God knows and will determine the fate of the Anambrarians. If the PDP party primary is like what we are seeing today, Only God knows what the citizenry will expect at the ELECTION proper. May God help my brothers and sisters of Anambra.

PD P is telling the whole world that, they came to power in an undemocratic way. my advice to the people of Anambra is to revolt against such. WE in Adamawa state are facing same

Those you are jumping out of his candidacy may have discovered that he did not bring along with him the Central Bank of Nigeria to the primary election. Well, they thought wrong, Soludo may not be willing to bribe them and as such they are running to other candidates that are still spending bank borrowed money. To them, Soludo was suppose to arrive at the Anambra primary with Central Bank of Nigeria Check-book. I am even liking the guy now that I know he may not want to be governor by all means possible. Anambra, Anambra, you have become a thurn among the Igbos; it is time you all get your shit together. It is a shame that the supposedly the most educated state in Nigeria is behaving like a bunch of imbeciles. Emeka, Houston Texas

seetle dem jare...leave all dis grammar

The mess that the Financial instititutions in this country find themselve in today coupled with the recent findings in respect of the scam surrounding the newly introduced Naira notes is as a result of the bad leadership of Prof. Soludo, and yet the PDP of Anambra state deems it fit to select Prof. Soludo as their flag bearer. Anambrarians should just get themselve ready for a four year term of political and economic mismanagement.

PDP is bad news; very bad news!!! Anambra kwezue nu!! Let us chase PDP and "ndi-oje-nga" politicians out of our state for life. This is the time for the final push. Let us sanitise our state. Enough is enough. Enough of burning of our towns and heritage.We have survived happily without PDP so far

anambra state= the state of touts and ritual killers and political godfathers e.g chris uba,emeka offor, andy uba etc..greedy politicians who will sell their soul to the devil for money...soludo go to okija shrine and take oath, the ticket will be yours...

@ TATA: lmao...you truly understand Nigerian politics.

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". This tussle of power in Anambra State has reached a new dimension but I'm glad it's happening in our back yard for posterity. The 'A' State has finally carved out it's own election calender different from every other state in Nigeria and no other State is capable of setting this kinda revolutionary precedence and I salute my people. Why have we reached this milestone?.Is it because we are smart?innovative/creative?loving/kind? or maybe because we are greedy,foolish,selfish,wicked and stupid as a people? Whatever it is, I believe that God wants to use Anambra State to prove a point to Igbos's all over the world. So whatever the PDP is doing now and during the governorship election should not be a concern to any real Igbo man/woman.They will surely self-destruct and we could care less because the PDP has never had the well-being of Anambrarians at heart, so let the 'kill' themselves and leave us out of their uselessness.

ANY STATE THAT WILL CHOOSE AN ANNIE OKONKWO,OVER A SOLUDO, AS GOVERNOR,..IS BEYOND REDEMPTION. BUT WHATS REALLY THE NEWS HERE?TWENTY SOMETHING CANDIDATES HAD EARLIER EXPRESSED OPPOSITION SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THIS ONE MAKE? NEXT IS GRADUALLY TURNING INTO 'SOLUDO NEWS'....GOOD WORK GUYS...WHAT BRILLIANT REPORTING. SOLUDO PLS FORWARD EVER!

It is a sign of the deep rot in Nigerias political fabric and indeed the low collective self esteem we hold ourselves as a people that a former CBN governor who presided over a still unfolding colossal banking scandal that is bringing our financial sector to it's knees is able to evade prosecution , talk less of being able to stand as and be front runner guber candidate for the leading party!!!....Poor, poor Nigeria

I do not understand wat is happening in anambra state because of a mere election. pls my fellow anambrarians let us join hands together and make peace in our state.lets consider the shame we are bringing upon our state.pls Iam an anambrarian. a young girl of 18 please the elders are destroying the state for us.MAY GOD HELP UE IN THIS OUR STATE.